Re: Station Status
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This will be used in a mobile environment. The various status reports of "off duty", "en route", "in service", "returning", "committed", "special", and others will be changed frequently throughout the day. Right now, that requires at least six mouse clicks, even more difficult to do on a small touchscreen. A stylus would help, but it is still a lot of clicks and double taps and easy to make errors, taking even more time. Far from convenient. And, making the change does not seem to trigger a beacon transmission to announce the change in status.
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Having some buttons at the top of the screen, say after the start and stop message processing buttons could be an option. Lacking the buttons, perhaps a pulldown to select the status options and a SEND button to force a beacon with the updated status. Or possibly a way to utilize an outboard hardware button bar with maybe six programmable buttons that could utilize the GPIO pins of the Raspberry Pi. And have those buttons be configured to initiate a beacon transmission with the updated status when pushed. Any of these would be preferable to needing six or more mouse clicks or screen taps just to change status. BTW, related to this, is there any way for the screen icon to readily display the status of the mobile station? Back in the old days of basic packet radio that used keyboard-to-keyboard comms, re-purposed MDTs were used with programmable macro keys that sent a beacon with similar status information, which was displayed as a timestamped list on the recipients screen. Not as fancy as the graphic APRS representations we have now, but plenty effective at the time. Thanks, Michael WA7SKG Andrew P. wrote on 12/27/19 7:56 PM: I didn't expect that the MicE status would be changed that often, and it mostly applies to mobile stations, since a fixed station can't really be "en route" or "returning". |
Michael WA7SKG