Hello all,

I'm using Dire Wolf with D-RATS via AGWPE, which has been working well for direct contact, but I we would like to use a digipeater. I'm unable to set the Digi Path in D-RATS itself, so the digipeater is ignoring the packets. I see the option for Digi Path, but it is greyed out. What needs to be done to make the setting become available?



Thanks!

Kevin - KG4EHH

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Hello Kevin,

I just posted the following reply to your Direwolf post but I thought I'd put it here as well to see what the D-Rats developers think:

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I saw your similar post for help on the D-rats list but a key detail in that post but not on your Direwolf post was the screen capture showing you are trying to use the AGWPE interface.? In that email, you say the "digipeater" path is grey'ed out.? On Linux with the newest BETA code, the field is not grey'ed out but after filling everything out, clicking on APPLY and then re-editing the new entry, the digipeater field is empty.? The same thing happens for the AGW username and password fields.? I then checked this on an old machine with an old version of the Python2 based D-rats and the username, password, and digipeater fields ARE grey'ed out there.? As a side test, I played around with manually editing the ~/.d-rats-ev/d-rats.config to explicitly enter a digipeater but nothing worked.? I also tried configuring a D-Rats profile with the "TNC" profile and that DOES seem to save the digipeater field there but I didn't test it to see if things work like one would expect.

So it seems that the current version of D-Rats Beta does not support digipeaters or user credentials on an AGWPE connection types.? I *can* confirm that D-Rats DOES initialize an AGW connection and transmit D-rats ping packets via AGW though the packets do NOT seem to be AX.25 formatted.? In the Direwolf log, I see an outgoing entry looking like:
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[0L] (Not AX.25)<0xc2><0x86><0xc2><0xa2>@@@<0xc2><0xa6><0xc2><0xa4><0xc2><0x86>@@@`<0xc2><0xa4><0xc2><0x8a><0xc2><0x98><0xc2><0x82><0xc2><0xb2>@a><0xf0>[SOB]"=@=@<0x01><0x01>p0=@<0x0c>KI6ZHD~~CQCQCQ~~Ping Request[EOB]
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There is a field in D-Rat's "TNC" connection type named "AX.25: enabled" which I would assume would ALWAYS be enabled for an AGWPE-type connection but maybe that's either not true, this is a bug, etc.? Not sure.
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--David
KI6ZHD

Hi David,

I was able to install D-RATS on Linux using the latest from GitHub. I see that it is not greyed out in Linux, but doesn't seem to save the setting as you suggested. I'll play around a bit more and see if I can figure out a fix. If not, I'll create an issue on GitHub.

On 1/11/2023 11:38 AM, kevcornwell@... wrote:

Hi David,
I was able to install D-RATS on Linux using the latest from GitHub.
I see that it is not greyed out in Linux, but doesn't seem to save
the setting as you suggested. I'll play around a bit more and see if
I can figure out a fix. If not, I'll create an issue on GitHub.

We definitely need more people to work on fixing issues d-rats and join the ham-radio-software project. All I need is the github username to submit an invite.

To properly get a fix into the source the workflow is to create a issue to get an issue number.

Then create a PR with the fix to the issue and a towncrier compatible NEWS file fragment describing what was fixed.

73,
-John
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