ampledata
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9 years ago To decode the AX.25/APRS portion of those frames, check out my APRS Python Module.
An example of it's frame decoder is here: https://gist.github.com/ampledata/53ed5957a962bbaadc29
Which should output a Python Dict like:
{'text': '!3745.75NI12228.05W#W2GMD-6 Inner Sunset, SF iGate/Digipeater http://w2gmd.org', 'path': 'WIDE1-1', 'destination': 'APRX24', 'source': 'W2GMD-6'}
First off, I am not overly familiar with the KISS protocol - i'm just a user when it comes to that. But I've been wanting to connect to a ip-based TNC such as direwolf and interact with it from a python connection (ultimately resulting in a web interface).
To that end, I created this fork: https://github.com/ampledata/kiss/compare/master...ytjohn:socket?expand=1
And it did work, somewhat. I can write a message into the socket and the TNC will send it out over the air. However, I get some "garbage" characters when reading. If this was a serial port, my speed or stop bits would be wrong. But this is a socket connection (and it only impacts a portion of the message).
I captured some log of my attempts here.
Specifically:
produces this:
Would appreciate any insight towards what I need to do to get this to work. I most likely have to post-process this text in some way. Of course, once I get a handle on it, I plan to clean up the code, add some tests, and provide a PR back.
73s, KB3DFZ