Re: soundmodem on OpenWRT on ASUS WL-520gU router with USB audio

[Alan Crosswell <alan@columbia.edu>]

... also as a replacement for TNC-based digipeaters such as Kantronics,
PacComm, etc. since the alternative right now is a normal PC rather than
a small appliance.
/a

Alan Crosswell wrote:
> For the APRS community, aprsd would do it as you'd basically have an
> APRS-IS server in a box. Very useful for portable public service uses.
>
> On Sep 26, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Frank Smith <frankiansmith@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Alan,
>>
>> Yes, I agree, and didn't mean to discount any particular packet radio
>> software.
>>
>> My key interest, and the reason for mentioning ldsped in particular,
>> is that I am interested in creating a "packet radio engine" box out of
>> a cheap router, that I can connect to with packet software running on
>> a laptop or other WiFi device, maybe even an iPod touch.
>>
>> I think that Linux as a platform for packet radio could become more
>> popular if it could be embedded in a box like a router so that hams
>> with little experience in Linux, and are not interested in learning
>> it, could just use it as an off-the-shelf appliance with whatever
>> packet clients they like, on any OS platform they want.
>>
>> It would be nice if existing APRS clients such as UI-View and Xastir
>> could use this "packet radio engine" using existing mechanisms, such
>> as the AGWPE TCP/IP protocol.  I am fairly new to packet so if anyone
>> has any suggestions for other ways that I could accomplish what I want
>> to do I would be very interested in hearing them.
>>
>> Frank VE1FIS.
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Alan Crosswell <alan@columbia.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> Frank,
>>>
>>> This sounds like a great platform for aprsdigi
>>> (http://aprsdigi.sf.net),
>>> aprsd, etc.
>>> 73
>>> /a
>>>
>>> On Sep 26, 2009, at 8:13 AM, Frank Smith <frankiansmith@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have recently been working on getting soundmodem running on OpenWRT
>>>> on an ASUS WL-520gU router with a USB audio dongle. I have had some
>>>> initial success so I thought I would make the magic available to
>>>> anyone who is interested.
>>>>
>>>> I have posted the software and a rudimentary set of installation
>>>> instructions at http://www.ve1fis.net, follow the link to
>>>> "Frankenrouter-2". These instructions assume a working knowledge of
>>>> OpenWRT and AX.25 on Linux.
>>>>
>>>> It is just a proof of concept at this point; I have successfully used
>>>> it for a couple of days to monitor APRS traffic (using the axlisten
>>>> command) and send APRS beacons (using the beacon command). After you
>>>> install the packages it is up to you to make it do something. On my
>>>> router there is about 500k of flash available after installation.
>>>>
>>>> This soundmodem package differs from vanilla soundmodem in a couple of
>>>> ways:
>>>> - I patched in a lightweight xml parser
>>>> (http://ezxml.sourceforge.net/) to avoid requiring libxml2
>>>> - There is no configuration application; you need to create your own
>>>> soundmodem.conf
>>>>
>>>> I welcome any suggestions for improvements, and please let me know if
>>>> you find this useful. I think this would be a great platform for
>>>> ldsped (http://www.on7lds.net/ldsped/index.html) once it is released
>>>> in source code.
>>>>
>>>> Frank VE1FIS
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>>>
>>
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