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Re: Kissutil packet documentation

 

I know you want to transmit, which is why I highlighted the transmit line from the user guide in bold. You use the same format.

I just did a quick test. I created a 'kiss_packets' directory, and ran:

$ kissutil -v -f kiss_packets

Then I created a text file with this one line of content:

KD6YAM>ID:Merry Christmas

When I copied that file into the kiss_packets directory, I was rewarded with this on the console:

From KISS TNC:
? 000: ?c0 00 92 88 40 40 40 40 e0 96 88 6c b2 82 9a e1 ?....@@@@...l....
? 010: ?03 f0 4d 65 72 72 79 20 43 68 72 69 73 74 6d 61 ?..Merry Christma
? 020: ?73 c0 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?s.
[0] KD6YAM>ID:Merry Christmas

as the packet was transmitted by my radio. At the same time, in my Direwolf console, I saw this:

[0L] KD6YAM>ID:Merry Christmas

My radio did key up and send out the packet, as 'listen' running in another terminal confirmed.

As I understand it, this is exactly what you're trying to do, no?

You no doubt want to put different data into the packet than "Merry Christmas", but what you put there is not related to either kissutil or Direwolf. If you want to send an APRS packet, you'll need to figure out the actual APRS content, but when you have that, you just put it after the colon in the file you give to kissutil.

If you're still having trouble, maybe try running kissutil in interactive mode (i.e. without -f, but I'd suggest with -v) and try things out until you get it working. You can just type a packet to it and you should see it sent out. If there's a problem, you'll see an error message.

Martin.
KD6YAM

On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 11:14 AM charlie gale <charles@...> wrote:

[Edited Message Follows]

Thanks again, Martin.

Yes sir, I read that in the user guide, and can parse the result and decode received message packets just fine.? So now I want to TRANSMIT an ACK. What do I put in the file? Do I include a time stamp, because I get one on receive?. Comma separators? I have actually done a cut and paste of a received message, changed the from/to addresses, and still no joy. Maybe I need a CR at the end that I can't see?? APRS 101 does not help, because I am not directly creating a packet - if I was doing that, I'd use the KISS interface, not the Kissutil application. I honestly have RTFM'd everything I can find over the last few weeks, but there is no joy in Mudville.?

Direwolf is an awesome application. It does more than any others I have found, and certainly more than my old hardware TNCs. And this application will seriously reduce the code I'd have to write to talk directly to the KISS interface. I'm almost there!

Surely there is a Kissutil user guide somewhere???

Thanks for trying to help me, and all the best of the season to you!
Charlie (VY1CC)

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