[aprssig] Online telemetry

Scott Miller scott at opentrac.org
Mon Aug 29 17:51:15 EDT 2005


Keep in mind that I'm actively tweaking that flash thing - it's down a lot 
at the moment.  If you don't see a thermometer and a reading, it's not 
working.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Jefferson Jarvis" <jj at aprsworld.net>
To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Online telemetry


> Feel free to give me some ideas for aprsworld. I never really had any 
> concept
> I particularly liked, so the interface didn't progress very far.
>
> Now that my new wind data logging product (shameless plug:
> http://aprsworld.com/wind2/) is sending telemetry (KB0THN-2), I finally 
> have
> a station that I know about to test with. Well, actually it is sending a 
> user
> defined / custom packet, but the concept is the same.
>
> I would mention that the APRS spec telemetry format is really limited. 
> 8-bit
> ADC doesn't really cut it. That's why I had to craft my own user defined
> packet.
>
> -Jim KB0THN
>
> On Monday 29 August 2005 14:56, Scott Miller wrote:
>> I've decided it's time to add standard APRS telemetry support to the
>> OpenTracker (it's got 3 ADC inputs and a couple of digital inputs 
>> onboard),
>> but in looking at FindU and aprsworld I'm surprised how little support
>> there seems to be for it online.  Maybe some of the clients do a better
>> job, but all I can find is the FindU graph page that's totally unreadable
>> if there's a lot of information, and the aprsworld table dump that's not 
>> a
>> whole lot easier to read than the raw data.
>>
>> Is there anything better out there?  What about that XML interface, does 
>> it
>> support telemetry?  At this point I'm inclined to just forget about the
>> standard format, adopt my own custom format, and write a new web 
>> interface
>> for it.
>>
>> Scott, N1VG
>> http://n1vg.net/opentracker
>>
>>
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