[aprssig] Blog post: Important hints to APRS igate developers

[Greg Trasuk]

I collected a whack of packets off-air when I was doing my ‘utils-for-aprs’ project.  They are here:

https://github.com/trasukg/utils-for-aprs/blob/develop/src/spec/sample-frames.js

That file is JavaScript, but if you go in and delete the initial comments, they should be readable by any JSON interpreter.

Of course, if you happen to want to use Node.js for your igate software, you can just go ahead and use the ‘utils-for-aprs’ library.  It already knows how to decode KISS packets.

Code: https://github.com/trasukg/utils-for-aprs
Install using npm: npm install —save-dev utils-for-aprs

Cheers,

Greg Trasuk
> On May 9, 2017, at 9:28 AM, Scott Miller <scott at opentrac.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info, Hessu.  I'm starting my own implementation soon.  Would be nice if we had a library of test packets in KISS format for stress testing (against something other than production servers!) - if you're saving examples of problem packets, let me know and maybe I can use them as templates.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott
> N1VG
> 
> On 5/9/2017 2:51 AM, Heikki Hannikainen wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Sorry for the repeated spam about this document. It seems like it's still easy to find these bugs (last night I filed tickets for 3 on github).
>> 
>> Last night I wrote a little blog post to highlight the issue of new igate implementations having old bugs:
>> 
>> http://blog.aprs.fi/2017/05/important-hints-to-igate-developers.html
>> 
>> The technical beef is in the hints document:
>> 
>> https://github.com/hessu/aprsc/blob/master/doc/IGATE-HINTS.md
>> 
>> If you're writing an igate, or if you are testing a new igate made by someone else, please check that it doesn't have these bugs. Thanks!
>> 
>> If you're not writing an igate, but know a little C or Python, please grab one of the new open source igate apps and do a little code review, and try to find one of these bugs. They're surprisingly common and easy to spot. Fixing might be really easy too, so you can submit a Pull Request and get a warm, fuzzy feeling after helping the APRS network become a better place for packets to roam in.
>> 
>>  - Hessu, OH7LZB
>> 
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