[aprssig] Remote monitoring

[Robert Bruninga]

> I'm looking into a way of ... monitoring a repeater site ...
> We have a Tiny-2 running as a digi presently (no computer).  
> I'm specifically looking to monitor the power and possibly 
> the temp. My question is can this existing tnc do it?

No, only comercial TNC that does this is the KPC-3+ and
KPC-9612+.
They put out the standard APRS telemetry protocol for 5
telemetry values.  The format is
MYCALL>BEACON,PATH:T#SSS,111,222,333,444,555,11111111

Where SSS is the serial number of the packet, then 5 analog
values (0 to 255) and then 8 digitial bits.  Displaying voltages
or current or temperature is as simple as hooking up some
resistors and/or a thermistor.  FINDU.COM then can log and
display these over time.

See FINDU Telemetry stations:
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/tele-list.cgi

De Wb4aPR, Bob

> 
> Rick ka1udx
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org
> [mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org] On Behalf Of Stephen
H. Smith
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 12:23 PM
> To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
> Cc: dave at emv.co.uk
> Subject: [aprssig] RE: Re: *** APRS TNC Test CD Now Available
*** ---
> Can'tPlay It
> 
> dave at emv.co.uk wrote:
> > Hi..
> >
> >
> >
> > Thinking about it, having a "data" track at the beginning, 
> not the end
> > of the compilation may indeed screw up some players, 
> probably the more
> > capable ones too, after all my old Discman just "played" it 
> (silently)
> > as any other track, perhaps some players "see" a data track,
then
> assume
> > the rest is data?  Most other mixed format CD's I've seen,
have the
> > audio stuff first, then the other content...   Not tried it
myself
> with
> > WiMP yet.
> >
> > WiMP, is however renown for sometimes doing odd things with
mixed
> > content disks, and also for the several odd way's to make it
behave,
> > though it does seem to vary from one machine to another.
> >
> >   
> 
> 
> 1)   I created the disk originally with Roxio Easy CD Creator 
> 6.0 .    
> CD Creator's default behavior for a "Mixed Mode Disk Project"
is to 
> place the data track first, and then the audio track(s).  
> 
> 2)   Using Easy CD Creator, I then made an image file in Roxio
.CIF 
> format because the widely used and nearly universal.ISO format
only 
> supports data-onlyCDs; not audio or mixed-mode disks.
> 
> 3)   I initially only posted the disk image in the
Adaptec/Roxio .CIF 
> format. 
> 
> 4)   Someone else then converted the .CIF image to Nero .NRG
format 
> using a third-party format-conversion utility. Given that all
the 
> complaints so far on various lists has involved disks made 
> from the Nero
> 
> version, I am wondering if the CIF->NRG conversion was less
than 
> perfect.  I simply have no way of knowing if the conversion
was 
> perfectly accurate.  Since I don't have or use Nero Burning 
> ROM, I can't
> 
> test or vouch for the .NRG version of the file.
> 
> 
> Finally,  
> 
> 5)   Win 2000's "CD Player" applet (not Media Player) plays
the disk 
> just fine, allowing you to easily skip over the first (data) 
> track that 
> some CD drives mistakenly think is an unplayable audio track.
The 
> applet "CDplayer.exe" produces a user interface that looks
like a 
> typical car stereo CD player.  It is a single 330K exe file 
> located in 
> the /SYSTEM32 subdirectory underneath the main Windows
directory.    
> This file requires no installation or hooks to the Windows 
> registry.  It
> 
> can be copied from a Win 2K system and easily used with
Windows XP.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Stephen H. Smith    wa8lmf (at) aol.com
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