There must be something else I am missing.

The serial ports are owned by root, and belong to the group wheel.
My user belongs to wheel.

Still nothing in the dropdown box when I go to create a new port.

KF6ODE-0:~ <username>$ ls -l /dev/tty.*

crw-rw-rw-? 1 root? wheel ? 18, ? 4 Jan 24 18:36 /dev/tty.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port

crw-rw-rw-? 1 root? wheel ? 18, ? 0 Jan 24 18:36 /dev/tty.KeySerial1

crw-rw-rw-? 1 root? wheel ? 18, ? 2 Jan 24 18:36 /dev/tty.USA19H142P1.1

KF6ODE-0:~?<username>$ id

uid=501(<username>) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),4(tty),12(everyone),20(staff),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),250(_analyticsusers),395(com.apple.access_ftp),102(com.apple.access_screensharing-disabled),101(com.apple.access_ssh-disabled),400(com.apple.access_remote_ae)

The first thing is to ensure you have permission to access the serial port files in the /dev directory, i.e., files with names like

/dev/tty.serial.*
/dev/tty.usbserial.*

Also, you need to actually have such files; if you don't, then you don't have any serial ports to access.

Your login account should be a member of whatever group these files are a member of. Specifically, do _not_ try to run YAAC as root to get owner access to the serial port files; all you need is group membership. Alas, I don't know what the commands are to add a user to the membership of a group on Mac OS X.

Then, once you've joined the group, and logged out and logged in again (so the group membership takes effect), start up YAAC and attempt to create a Port of type Serial_TNC (if you are accessing a KISS TNC), Serial_GPS (if you are accessing a GPS receiver and are _not_ using GPSD), or Serial_Weather (if you have a Peet Bros weather station).

Hope that helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of promo776 <kf6ode@...>
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2021 7:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [yaac-users] Serial Ports on Mac OS

Apologies if this has already been covered, but I can not for the life of me figure out how to access the serial port on my Mac.

Apologies if this has already been covered, but I can not for the life of me figure out how to access the serial port on my Mac.

Andrew, Many thanks, I looked through so many setup options I don't know how I missed it!
73
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Graham Chaloner
M0GWC

I've found this very useful for bicycle events where I use a 4HD 40-inch flat-screen TV as the monitor (big enough to see the entire course without panning or zooming the map). YAAC's map drawing resolution is so fine with a 3840x2160 resolution monitor that I need to make the SAG vehicle icons bigger so they can be found on the screen. The second option was especially useful the time we had a jammer on the frequency near the Net Control Station, so I had to use wireless Internet access to get to the APRS-IS and receive the SAG trackers via I-gate, because then I was getting tons of other stations via the APRS-IS feed, so I made sure to only double the size of icons for the SAG trackers (and the private [non-transmitted] Objects I posted for the rest areas and finish line).

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Ronny Julian <k4rjjradio@...>
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2021 11:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] APRS Station Icon Size

Made my house twice the size! Thanks Andrew!

On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 10:42 AM Andrew P. <andrewemt@...<mailto:andrewemt@...>> wrote:
Yes, it's very easy to enlarge the icon size (can't make them smaller, however).

1. For all icons on the map, you can double their size by checking the menu choice View->Layers...->Show Symbols Double-Sized.

2. For selected specific stations, you can make their icons twice as large as other stations by going to View->Tracked Stations List, and checking Double-Sized Icon for the desired stations. Note that if you have performed option#1 already, tracked stations with Double-Sized Icon will cause those stations to be displayed at 4 times the default icon size in YAAC.

Note that neither of these affects the icon size in tabular views (such as the Station/Object list), nor does it improve the resolution of the icons. It just makes them larger.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Graham Chaloner <m0gwc73@...<mailto:m0gwc73@...>>
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2021 8:31 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [yaac-users] APRS Station Icon Size

Apologies if this gets double posted.
There may be a simple answer to this - is it possible to change the default size of station icons displayed on the map?
I appreciate you can change the associated text size but can find nothing related to the actual APRS icon size.

Using YAAC 1.0 beta 163, OS Linux Mint 20.1
Many thanks
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Graham Chaloner
M0GWC

Yes, it's very easy to enlarge the icon size (can't make them smaller, however).

1. For all icons on the map, you can double their size by checking the menu choice View->Layers...->Show Symbols Double-Sized.

2. For selected specific stations, you can make their icons twice as large as other stations by going to View->Tracked Stations List, and checking Double-Sized Icon for the desired stations. Note that if you have performed option#1 already, tracked stations with Double-Sized Icon will cause those stations to be displayed at 4 times the default icon size in YAAC.

Note that neither of these affects the icon size in tabular views (such as the Station/Object list), nor does it improve the resolution of the icons. It just makes them larger.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
________________________________________
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Graham Chaloner <m0gwc73@...>
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2021 8:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [yaac-users] APRS Station Icon Size

Apologies if this gets double posted.
There may be a simple answer to this - is it possible to change the default size of station icons displayed on the map?
I appreciate you can change the associated text size but can find nothing related to the actual APRS icon size.

Using YAAC 1.0 beta 163, OS Linux Mint 20.1
Many thanks
--
Graham Chaloner
M0GWC

Apologies if this gets double posted.
There may be a simple answer to this - is it possible to change the default size of station icons displayed on the map?
I appreciate you can change the associated text size but can find nothing related to the actual APRS icon size.

Using YAAC 1.0 beta 163, OS Linux Mint 20.1
Many thanks
--
Graham Chaloner
M0GWC

Technically, most of the hop lines are dashed, but if multiple stations are coming through the same last digipeater before your station hears it, the longer dashed lines might obliterate the shorter dashes. Dark green 2-pixel-long dots are for direct path (no intervening digipeater), cyan 4-pixel-long short dashes are for 1 hop away, brown 6-pixel-long wider lines are for 2 hops away, and yellow-orange solid lines are 3 hops away. Note that the hop count is started at the originating station (or I-gate if sent to RF by a Tx I-gate) so several different colors may appear (or sit on top of other colors) near your station. Stations you receive from an Internet connection never get hop lines.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Jim Quattlebaum (W4QQI) <jim@...>
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021 7:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [yaac-users] Solid and dashed lines?

What are the significance of solid vrs dashed traced lines on hops?

What are the significance of solid vrs dashed traced lines on hops?

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I've notice that objects with GPS reports get their symbol rotated so that is is aligned with the bearing. I find that this makes symbols very hard to identify. How can this be disabled?
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Signed/Jacob Edwards Wiese/KD9LWR/Cell 219 221 0486//
CoCoRaHS ID/IN-LP-65//

NNNN

The Yaesu FT-991A works well with YAAC. I recommend that you check out the document at (hereafter referred to as "the guide") for tips on setup, as the requirements for YAAC are essentially the same.

You will need a USB A to B cable, such as the Tripp-Lite U023-006 recommended in the guide.
You will also need a software based Packet-Radio TNC, such as Soundmodem at .
The guide covers configuration of the radio and Soundmodem.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

Jim Palmer
AG5VQ

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I was wrong. The FCC just moved the database snapshot file to a different URL, and changed the download protocol. Should have a new version of the callsignDB plugin available in the next build.

callook.info doesn't add any info over the official FCC database, since it only supports US licenses. Now, another site that covered international licenses, that would be of interest.

Regarding problems with the FCC database, it looks like they are actually providing a minor improvement in licensee privacy by no longer making the entire list of licensees downloadable as they were when the CallsignDB plugin was first written. The license grants are still public record, but you have to look them up with a known identifier (such as callsign) one at a time, as European Union nations have been doing for some time. So I shall have to change the plugin to do a dynamic lookup (similar to QRZ, but before trying QRZ) on a callsign-by-callsign basis, where YAAC will cache found results for later reuse.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
________________________________________
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of KG7KMV
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] Callsign DB

What about using one of the free callsign lookups, such as

also, the FCC DB download seems to have a broken link for me:

If I am typing in the chat window and a message comes in then focus moves to the messages window and interrupts my typing. How can I stop this?
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Signed/Jacob Edwards Wiese/KD9LWR/Cell 219 221 0486//
CoCoRaHS ID/IN-LP-65//

NNNN

What about using one of the free callsign lookups, such as?

also, the FCC DB download seems to have a broken link for me:?

Never mind. I figured it out. Somehow I created multiple ports by accident. Deleted them and all is good.

I hope.

Michael


Michael WA7SKG wrote on 1/11/21 9:55 AM:

Finally getting back to my mobile APRS after it sat on the shelf for a year. Updating the Raspberry Pi OS was unsuccessful, so I re-imaged the SD card and am starting from scratch. I think I have most things going, but ran into one issue.

I am using a generic USB GPS puck. It is pulling GPS and shows data in the TEST PORT thing. My question is, on the main screen I have three GPS blocks. Two of them blink green randomly. I expected one icon to represent receiving GPS data, but not three of them.

Is this normal, or do I have a configuration oops?


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73,
Michael WA7SKG

"Any day you do not learn one new thing is a wasted day."