rmsgw

Linux RMS Gateway

• To get a copy of the repository using git:

git clone https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/rmsgw

• or using wget to create a zipped tarball

  
  # To create a tar zipped file, rmsgw.tgz
  wget -O rmsgw.tgz https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/rmsgw/tarball/master

To create a directory with source files from the zipped tarball

wget -O - https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/rmsgw/tarball/master | tar zxf

* **NOTE:** Installation & configuration scripts & notes live in [n7nix/rmsgw](https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/n7nix/tree/master/rmsgw)

### Installation - overview

#### Build Requirements
* Install AX.25 library & support utilities
* xutils-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libncurses5-dev

#### Installation/runtime requirements
* AX.25 kernel support
* libax25 runtime
* python 2.7.9 or greater
* python-requests

### Install AX.25 library & support utilities

### Install & configure Linux RMS Gateway
* Currently (3/2017) RMS Gateway needs to be built from source
  * Goal to make it a Debian package
#### Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/rmsgw cd rmsgw

* Verify that directory _/usr/local/etc/rmsgw_ does NOT exist and
create a symbolic link to it.

ln -s /etc/rmsgw /usr/local/etc/rmsgw

* Do the build

./autogen.sh ./configure make

Install as root

sudo make install

Now edit the config files in /etc/rmsgw

#### Use scripts
* There are some scripts that automate the process which does the following:
  * Download source as a zipped tarball.
  * Untar source
  * Build source
  * Install result
  * Edit config files

### Installing AX.25 library, tools & apps
* Use a script, it's easier

### Basic AX.25 support packages:
* libax25 - runtime library
* ax25-tools - utilities
* ax25-apps - applications

## RMS Gateway Installation scripts

### Install notes & scripts
* Charles Schuman K4GBB has excellent notes & install scripts for the Raspberry Pi [here](http://k4gbb.no-ip.org/docs/raspberry.html)
  * (http://k4gbb.no-ip.org/docs/raspberry.html)

* The install script in n7nix/rmsgw uses Charles' script modified to include all the necessary steps from his notes [here](https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/n7nix/tree/master/rmsgw)
  * (https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/n7nix/tree/master/rmsgw)