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paulmandal / atak-forwarder

Forwards packets to/from ATAK over an off-grid communication layer
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External GPS meshtastic board #195

Closed CypressXt closed 10 months ago

CypressXt commented 10 months ago

Hey @paulmandal and @a-f-G-U-C thanks for the awesome work!

I was wondering how the meshtastic board GPS data are handled (when configured as a Comm Device) ? As far as I could see, there is no way to tell ATAK to use a meshtastic board as an external GPS provider but in the Meshtastic APP you can tell the board to broadcast its GPS position periodically as displayed bellow: Screenshot_20240106-225220

Is ATAK-Forwarder able to use those GPS frames broadcasted by the Meshtastic board on it's own or should we patch the atak-forwarder plugin to enable external meshtastic GPS support ?

paulmandal commented 10 months ago

ATAK Forwarder will treat those GPS pings as a Tracker, it will try to use the shortName to pick its icon/color. It will show them on a map. Trackers can also be configured via the plugin in the settings menu.

For devices connected to ATAK the phone GPS is going to be much more accurate unless there is a MT device with an especially nice GPS module.

CypressXt commented 10 months ago

Awesome, thanks a lot for the clarification !