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Dire Wolf is a software "soundcard" AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, as a tracker, digipeater, APRStt gateway, or Internet Gateway (IGate). For more information, look at the bottom 1/4 of this page and in https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/dev/doc/README.md
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Support APRS Directed Station Queries #112

Open dranch opened 7 years ago

dranch commented 7 years ago

Direwolf 1.4 recognizes APRS station queries but doesn't respond as the "aprs_directed_station_query" function is effectively just a placeholder and no code support exists today. I would be great to add support for the basic commands. Here is a proposal of maybe how they could be supported over time. Just my $0.02 here..

Phase 1 - have Direwolf just respond with "complete response not supported today". Just getting a response will be a big help for users trying to do diagnostics, etc.

Future proposed phases:

Query Type | Query APRS | General — All stations query | Station’s position and status | phase 2: should be strait forward

APRSD | Directed — Query an individual station for stations heard direct | List of stations heard direct | Could be a Phase3 feature though this is a pretty valuable response

APRSH | Directed — Query if an individual station has heard a particular station | Position of heard station as an APRS Object, plus heard statistics for the last 8 hours | Maybe a phase 4 feature

APRSM | Directed — Query an individual station for outstanding unacknowledged or undelivered messages | All outstanding messages for the querying station | Maybe a phase 4 feature

APRSO | Directed — Query an individual station for its Objects | Station’s Objects | maybe phase 3

APRSP | Directed — Query an individual station for its position | Station’s position | phase 2: should be strait forward

APRSS | Directed — Query an individual station for its status | Station's status | phase 2: should be strait forward

APRST or PING? | Directed — Query an individual station for a trace (i.e. path by which the packet was heard) | Route trace | Could be a Phase4 feature though this is a pretty valuable response

IGATE | General — Query all Internet Gateways | IGate station capabilities | phase 2: should be strait forward

WX | General — Query all weather stations | Weather report (and the station’s position if it is not included in the Weather Report) | Maybe phase 3 Seems to be a subset of APRSO

dranch commented 7 years ago

It's worth adding that Direwolf currently digipeats these packets which is probably NOT what we want to have happen. This should be suppressed as part of the phase 1effort

Tyler-2 commented 2 years ago

Yes please! I didn't even know about these features since Direwolf is kind of my golden standard for APRS, and where I learn.

craigsned commented 1 year ago

Bump - would be a really useful addition to Direwolf