Hello Andrew,

?Tried updating to the latest YAAC Version today and received the following message:

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the reply.

On 17 May 2020, at 12:45 am, Andrew P. <andrewemt@...> wrote:

It depends on a few factors:

1. How zoomed out are you (as in the span in lat/lon degrees from left to right and top to bottom of your map window)? This affects how many tiles you need to render.

It happens at all zoom levels, from global down to 0.1km.

2. How fast is your CPU, and how many cores? You said "old", so I'm assuming that means "slow”.

It’s a dual 2.66Ghz 6 core Xeon X5650 with 24GB RAM and reasonable SATA HDs. I don’t think it’s a speed issue.

3. Where on the planet are you looking? Some parts of OpenStreetMap are far more detailed than others, hence take longer to slog through the data in that 1x1-degree "tile" of vector data. Ex.: London, England (the home of the OpenStreetMap Foundation) versus Queen Maud's Land, Antarctica.

Canberra, Australia.

4. Hopefully, you didn't specify drawing unlabeled map data in the expert-mode configuration dialog; that increases the amount of vector data to process.

No. I checked and that is not selected.

On a pan of the map (zoom scale not changed), YAAC tries to keep using the old rendering of OpenStreetMap data (leaving the rest of the map blank) until the new render is complete.

On a pan as soon as I start the pan it all goes white, except for aprs stations and their labels. If I keep the mouse button held then it stays white, and then redraws once the mouse button is released.

On a zoom, that wouldn't work (since the scale is different), so you get a blank background until the re-render is complete.

If you have a slow disk and at least 4 CPU cores, you might try specifying the multi-threaded renderer, which does the disk I/O in one thread and the rendering in another, so the disk reading isn't slowed down by spending time rendering in the same thread. Start YAAC with a command like this:

java -Duse.multi.osm.thread=true -jar YAAC.jar

I can't guarantee this will be any faster (depending on the speed and fragmentation of your disk), but it gives you another chance.

I’ve just tried that and it makes no difference. The OSM redraw is quite quick once I release the button, or the zoom finishes.


Carl.

It depends on a few factors:

1. How zoomed out are you (as in the span in lat/lon degrees from left to right and top to bottom of your map window)? This affects how many tiles you need to render.
2. How fast is your CPU, and how many cores? You said "old", so I'm assuming that means "slow".
3. Where on the planet are you looking? Some parts of OpenStreetMap are far more detailed than others, hence take longer to slog through the data in that 1x1-degree "tile" of vector data. Ex.: London, England (the home of the OpenStreetMap Foundation) versus Queen Maud's Land, Antarctica.
4. Hopefully, you didn't specify drawing unlabeled map data in the expert-mode configuration dialog; that increases the amount of vector data to process.

On a pan of the map (zoom scale not changed), YAAC tries to keep using the old rendering of OpenStreetMap data (leaving the rest of the map blank) until the new render is complete. On a zoom, that wouldn't work (since the scale is different), so you get a blank background until the re-render is complete.

I'm eternally working on trying to make the map rendering faster, but the continuing growth in the detail of the OpenStreetMap data set tends to cancel out my efforts in this area, especially on systems with slow disk drives where the limiting factor is how fast the optimized OpenStreetMap data can be read from disk into the rendering code, not the actual rendering computation time. The Raspberry Pi computers are exceptionally painful in this regard due to the slow response of the SD card used as mass storage.

If you have a slow disk and at least 4 CPU cores, you might try specifying the multi-threaded renderer, which does the disk I/O in one thread and the rendering in another, so the disk reading isn't slowed down by spending time rendering in the same thread. Start YAAC with a command like this:

java -Duse.multi.osm.thread=true -jar YAAC.jar

I can't guarantee this will be any faster (depending on the speed and fragmentation of your disk), but it gives you another chance.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

Hi Andrew,
I’m running Java 14 on an old Mac Pro under macOS 10.14. Whenever I move the map, or zoom the entire map blanks to white, then redraws. Is this normal behaviour?


Thanks,

Carl.

BTW... Take a look at weewx. It has twitter output and is (I believe) GNU public License.

I set us a test config to see if the radio port slowdown worked (#14). My -4 station, (RasPi3B+ and tnc-pi9k6, YAAC-150) talks across the room to -1 station (RasPi3B+ with TNC-pi, YAAC-148, aprs-is). Unfortunately the weather string is still not received either in the raw packet log or aprs.fi

Also, when I tried to install the weatheralert plugin I received this message:? "Plugin weatheralert failed to install"? I didn't see any errors in the log, but I did see this:

at org.ka2ddo.yaac.YAAC.loadOnePlugin(YAAC.java:1179)

at org.ka2ddo.yaac.gui.pluginstore.PluginStoreTableModel$2$1.doInBackground(PluginStoreTableModel.java:477)

at org.ka2ddo.yaac.gui.pluginstore.PluginStoreTableModel$2$1.doInBackground(PluginStoreTableModel.java:306)

at java.desktop/javax.swing.SwingWorker$1.call(SwingWorker.java:304)

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Again, question #1: are you able to transmit your own beacon? If not, then solve that problem before trying to digipeat other stations' packets.

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You can also read:



which includes a list of recommended common groups.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

Andrew,

As someone who is new to APRS, this sort of information is very valuable.
I am very impressed with the depth and breadth of YAAC.

Many thanks,
Jim, AG5VQ

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This is independent of your earlier question about setting up a digipeater. Since you "qualify" as being in an area needing a digipeater, then go for it. I'm talking about areas like where I live where there are almost too many digipeaters.?

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Greetings.

After looking at yet another email about adding digipeaters, the thought came up of "What do we really need to add to APRS?"

Except in certain areas, we generally have good coverage with digipeaters, so we don't usually need more of them.

What we need is content. To quote the old Bruce Springsteen song, "there's 57 channels and nothing's on." So what are you adding to APRS? More fixed beacons don't really add value and mobile trackers (unless some other station wants to track that specific mobile) aren't much more useful.

But services, they add value. The QRU service is a simple capability of announcing on demand what services are in the area. So, if someone's driving through and looking for a good 2-meter voice repeater for a rag-chew, they should be able to send to QRU a request for RP2M (two-meter analog repeaters) and get an answer of Objects identifying local repeaters (preferably in correct syntax so a Kenwood radio can one-button tune to the repeater). YAAC supports defining Objects and associating them with QRU categories, so your station could answer a QRU query. To avoid channel clutter, you don't need to be transmitting those Objects all the time, just when someone asks for them. And there are dozens of QRU categories. One category is the INFO category, which allows you to ask local QRU servers what categories of information they provide.

Of course, every one in the neighborhood shouldn't report the same information. Say, each one provide the RP2M or RP70 for their own club's repeater, so all clubs with open repeaters are supported from multiple QRU servers, instead of one Single Point Of Failure announcing all repeaters. This is a little different from Bob Bruninga's Local Info Initiative that expects one high-level digipeater to do it all periodically instead of on-demand, but with the amount of local info that could be available, cluttering the channel with Objects the locals know about is a waste of bandwidth, but announcing it for transient mobiles on-demand is much more effective use of the channel.

Similarly, there are services on the APRS-IS that are useful to RF stations, but they can't be accessed unless there is a transmit-capable I-gate within range of the RF station. Without a Tx I-gate, the service's answer won't make it back to the RF station. So running a Tx I-gate (instead of the less useful receive-only I-gate) expands the usability of RF stations (which is really what Amateur Radio [as opposed to the Amateur Internet] is all about).

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

The first question is, are you configured for digipeating? Every station doesn't need to be a digipeater, so that functionality is off by default.

So, let's troubleshoot this in order.

1. Can you successfully transmit your own packets (beacons, etc.) to RF? That is, can you hear them (with a high-quality signal in terms of modulation level and frequency accuracy) from another nearby RF station? If you can't do that, there is no point in proceeding until you fix that. And especially we don't need to put out another low-quality distorted signal clogging the channel; there are too many misaligned unintelligible signals out there as it is.

2. Do you really need to be a digipeater, and is your station advantageously located for doing so? Too many digipeaters in an area is actually a detriment, because it causes more duplicate packets on the local channel, and likely more collisions, so channel throughput and reliability is actually lowered rather than increased. That even applies to "fill-in" digipeaters, but those should be located to "fill-in", not wide area coverage. So, ensure you actually need to be a digipeater before doing it.

3. What digipeat aliases are you intending to support? WIDE1-1? WIDE2-2? Some regional alias, like the MD7-7 Bob Bruninga uses as an example? You need to ensure those aliases are defined and enabled on the Digipeat tab of the expert-mode configuration dialog. I recommend enabling tracing for all aliases you support, to help debugging packet transmissions.

4. Which radio interfaces do you intend to digipeat through? Those same digipeat aliases need to be selected on those ports. Especially, do NOT put digipeat aliases on an HF port, as the HF APRS channels have low bandwidth and much wider coverage than the VHF channels.

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Ian Morrison <imorrison@...>
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 8:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [yaac-users] Digipeating

My system does not digipeat. I amusing a rpi2 with a tnc2 and beta 150 (11 may 20200. I think the paths are correct .Everything else works fine.

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Andrew,

The test packet file I attached was captured via:

cat /dev/ttyUSB0 > capturefile.txt

In looking at the real-time output, the only "extra" white-space I noted was that Mic-E packets seem to have two newlines after a packet.? Some weather station packets also had an additional newline, so I suspect that may be a source radio/software/client-unique addition...some have it...some don't.? It did seem consistent across stations (i.e. if a station has the extra newline, it always has the extra newline) so I don't think it's from the Yaesu firmware.? Additional white-space may have come from my transferring the file via copy/paste to get a reasonably sized excerpt.

Last night I opened up the source code on YaesuConnector.java...great work in there.? I haven't done a lot of Java coding...I didn't realize how complex string handling is with Java.? The code for indexing through a received packet is very well thought-out, and I appreciate your copious documentation in the source.? Thanks for putting in the time to chase this down.? Greatly appreciated.? If I can help in any way, please let me know.

Kurt
KE7KUS

OK, I ran your log of the collected messages through, and found several errors in the Yaesu port driver. I have fixes for all of those issues now, so the playback appears to work.

However, I'm wondering about the actual contents of the log. I can tell you didn't get them from the Yaesu debug log feature already in YAAC, but I'm trying to determine if the huge amount of excess whitespace in some of the packets was actually there, or whether that was an artifact from how you captured the data.

Anyway, the fix will be in the next build of YAAC, coming "real soon now".

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of ke7kus@... <ke7kus@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 9:47 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] FTM-400XDR and YaesuConnector

Andrew,

Thanks for your quick response. I've tested build #150 over the past two days and incoming packets from the FTM-400 are still not displaying on the YAAC map or registering as received packets. Here is a sample of the serial string I'm getting out of the data port on the radio:

KF6RAL-12>APRS,JACKPK,CABALL,BENRDG*,WIDE2 [20/13/05 10:29:56] <UI>:
!3201.04N/10919.24W_NWS Tucson Sugarloaf
KF6RAL-12>APRS,JACKPK,CABALL,LRIDGE*,WIDE2 [20/13/05 10:29:58] <UI>:
!3201.04N/10919.24W_NWS Tucson Sugarloaf
KE7KUS>APRX29,BENRDG*,WIDE2-1 [20/13/05 10:30:14] <UI>:
!3255.35NI10549.08W#/W3,NMn/
KE7KUS>APRX29,BENRDG,LRIDGE*,WIDE2 [20/13/05 10:30:16] <UI>:
!3255.35NI10549.08W#/W3,NMn/
AI0OK-9>SQ4WTR,ELPASO,BENRDG*,WIDE2 [20/13/05 10:30:22] <UI R>:
`r:Vl|\>/]"A!}=

None of the above packets (or any others received) processed in YAAC. Running YAAC from the command line with a uBlox GPS puck attached, I got a JSON parsing error for the GPS data, but no other indications. Disconnecting the USB GPS, I ran YAAC from the command line and got the following output:

pi@ke7kus-m:~/Downloads/YAAC $ java -jar YAAC.jar
os.name=Linux
os.version=4.19.97-v7l+
os.arch=arm
java.version=1.8.0_212
java.class.version=52.0
JVM: Oracle Corporation OpenJDK Client VM 25.212-b01
java.class.path=YAAC.jar
raw boot URL: jar:file:/home/pi/Downloads/YAAC/YAAC.jar!/org/ka2ddo/yaac/bootstrap/YAACBootstrap.class
boot URL: file:/home/pi/Downloads/YAAC/YAAC.jar
*** no Linux subdirectory
#1: file:/home/pi/Downloads/YAAC/YAAC.jar
*** already tried this directory
searching /usr/lib/jni
searching /usr/lib/jni/librxtxSerial.so
searching /lib
searching /usr/lib
searching /usr/local/lib
made java.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
Wed May 13 18:11:53 MDT 2020: starting YAAC....
Wed May 13 18:11:53 MDT 2020: YAAC initializing on Linux 4.19.97-v7l+ with Java 1.8.0_212
Wed May 13 18:11:53 MDT 2020: YAAC raising splash screen....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: load cached preferences....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: load beacon definitions....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: load status definition....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: set up raw packet data model....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: YAAC finding installation directory....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: YAAC checking if upgrader needs moving....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: YAAC loading CoreProvider....
loading plugin --core-- name YAAC version 1.0-beta150(11-May-2020)
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: creating SymAttr objects for 1.0.1...
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: filling in text for 1.0.1 symbols...
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: YAAC loading plugins....
scanning plugin JAR file /home/pi/Downloads/YAAC/plugins/sampleplugin.jar
attempting to load provider class org.ka2ddo.yaac.SamplePluginProvider
loading plugin /home/pi/Downloads/YAAC/plugins/sampleplugin.jar name YAAC Sample Plug-in version V0.0
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: starting web server...
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: YAAC starting main GUI....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: YAAC removing splash screen....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: setting up common GUI table models...
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: starting bulletin board monitor...
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: starting firstWindow=map
OpenMap(tm) Version 5.0
Copyright (C) BBNT Solutions LLC. All rights reserved.
See for details.

Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: creating top map toolbar...
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: 1589415114980: starting to load symbol images...
1589415115316: finished loading 1.0.1 basic symbol images...
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: 1589415115316: done loading symbols.
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: adding map scale widget...
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: adding blinkenlight panel...
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: creating map footer...
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: setting up map hot-keys...
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: sizing main map window...
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: YAAC: GUI instantiated, now setting up GUI....
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: YAAC starting digipeater....
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: YAAC opening ports....
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: waiting for I/O starter for Port1:GPSD to finish
opening port PortConfig[Port1>GPSD,localhost,2947,]
opening port PortConfig[Port2>Yaesu,/dev/ttyUSB0,9600,KE7KUS-9]
old socket rcvBuf=65536
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: opening socket to GPSD @ localhost/127.0.0.1:2947
updated socket rcvBuf=65536
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: waiting for I/O starter for Port2:Yaesu to finish
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: initializing local station KE7KUS-9
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: YAAC starting beacon and persistent objects....
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: YAAC creating main menu bar....
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: about to create RasterMapOverlay layer...
renderCurrentMap[#2]: ABORT 0(0)/0 ways(0ur), 0/0 nodes, 0 signs, 0 files(1 new,0 missing) in 38msec @ zoom=620125.44 [32.869373,-105.728355]
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: about to create StationRenderer layer...
renderCurrentMap[#2]: ABORT 2(193)/426 ways(0ur), 0/0 nodes, 0 signs, 1 files(1 new,0 missing) in 95msec @ zoom=620125.44 [32.869373,-105.728355]
renderCurrentMap[#2]: ABORT 4(217)/2546 ways(0ur), 0/0 nodes, 0 signs, 1 files(0 new,0 missing) in 20msec @ zoom=620125.44 [32.869373,-105.728355]
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: creating bookmark menu...
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: YAAC startup completed.
renderCurrentMap[#2]: 294(5536)/65699 ways(0ur), 2/18706 nodes, 6 signs, 12 files(12 new,0 missing) in 707msec @ zoom=620125.44 [32.869373,-105.728355]
1589415122840: PortEditor: starting to create editor
1589415122841: PortEditor: starting to create per-driver cards
RXTX fhs_lock() Error: creating lock file: /var/lock/LCK..ttyUSB0: File exists1589415122865: PortEditor: loading editor class for Yaesu
1589415122867: PortEditor: creating card for Yaesu
1589415122930: PortEditor: creating card selector
updateHelpTag() from card org.ka2ddo.yaac.gui.io.YaesuPortEditor[,0,0,0x0,invalid,layout=java.awt.GridBagLayout,alignmentX=0.0,alignmentY=0.0,border=,flags=9,maximumSize=,minimumSize=,preferredSize=], help tag=configure.ports.Yaesu
1589415123042: PortEditor: selected appropriate default card Yaesu
1589415123042: PortEditor: created.
updateHelpTag() from card org.ka2ddo.yaac.gui.io.YaesuPortEditor[,0,0,560x91,layout=java.awt.GridBagLayout,alignmentX=0.0,alignmentY=0.0,border=,flags=9,maximumSize=,minimumSize=,preferredSize=], help tag=configure.ports.Yaesu
Wed May 13 18:12:10 MDT 2020: opening test port for Yaesu port /dev/ttyUSB0
Wed May 13 18:14:48 MDT 2020: closing test port for Yaesu port /dev/ttyUSB0

When run this way, the program initializes with no problems. Opening the Configure Port dialog for the Yaesu port, everything appears normal. Running the "Test Port" option on the config dialog brings up the small terminal window and the packets are displayed in the format denoted above.

I observed the same response regardless of the incoming packet rate. The rate at which packets were displayed in the YAAC Test Port window was the same as the rate packets were displayed when running minicom pointed at the USB port. The attached screenshot was from a run with build #145, but the runs with build #150 looked the same. The attached text files are the full capture of a string of received packets (not displayed) and the CLI output noted above.

Andrew,

Thanks for your quick response.? I've tested build #150 over the past two days and incoming packets from the FTM-400 are still not displaying on the YAAC map or registering as received packets.? Here is a sample of the serial string I'm getting out of the data port on the radio:

KF6RAL-12>APRS,JACKPK,CABALL,BENRDG*,WIDE2 [20/13/05 10:29:56] <UI>:
!3201.04N/10919.24W_NWS Tucson Sugarloaf
KF6RAL-12>APRS,JACKPK,CABALL,LRIDGE*,WIDE2 [20/13/05 10:29:58] <UI>:
!3201.04N/10919.24W_NWS Tucson Sugarloaf
KE7KUS>APRX29,BENRDG*,WIDE2-1 [20/13/05 10:30:14] <UI>:
!3255.35NI10549.08W#/W3,NMn/
KE7KUS>APRX29,BENRDG,LRIDGE*,WIDE2 [20/13/05 10:30:16] <UI>:
!3255.35NI10549.08W#/W3,NMn/
AI0OK-9>SQ4WTR,ELPASO,BENRDG*,WIDE2 [20/13/05 10:30:22] <UI R>:???????????????
`r:Vl|\>/]"A!}=

None of the above packets (or any others received) processed in YAAC.? Running YAAC from the command line with a uBlox GPS puck attached, I got a JSON parsing error for the GPS data, but no other indications.? Disconnecting the USB GPS, I ran YAAC from the command line and got the following output:

pi@ke7kus-m:~/Downloads/YAAC $ java -jar YAAC.jar
os.name=Linux
os.version=4.19.97-v7l+
os.arch=arm
java.version=1.8.0_212
java.class.version=52.0
JVM: Oracle Corporation OpenJDK Client VM 25.212-b01
java.class.path=YAAC.jar
raw boot URL: jar:file:/home/pi/Downloads/YAAC/YAAC.jar!/org/ka2ddo/yaac/bootstrap/YAACBootstrap.class
boot URL: file:/home/pi/Downloads/YAAC/YAAC.jar
*** no Linux subdirectory
#1: file:/home/pi/Downloads/YAAC/YAAC.jar
*** already tried this directory
?? searching /usr/lib/jni
?? searching /usr/lib/jni/librxtxSerial.so
?? searching /lib
?? searching /usr/lib
?? searching /usr/local/lib
made java.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
Wed May 13 18:11:53 MDT 2020: starting YAAC....
Wed May 13 18:11:53 MDT 2020: YAAC initializing on Linux 4.19.97-v7l+ with Java 1.8.0_212
Wed May 13 18:11:53 MDT 2020: YAAC raising splash screen....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: load cached preferences....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: load beacon definitions....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: load status definition....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: set up raw packet data model....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: YAAC finding installation directory....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: YAAC checking if upgrader needs moving....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: YAAC loading CoreProvider....
loading plugin --core-- name YAAC version 1.0-beta150(11-May-2020)
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: creating SymAttr objects for 1.0.1...
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: filling in text for 1.0.1 symbols...
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: YAAC loading plugins....
scanning plugin JAR file /home/pi/Downloads/YAAC/plugins/sampleplugin.jar
attempting to load provider class org.ka2ddo.yaac.SamplePluginProvider
loading plugin /home/pi/Downloads/YAAC/plugins/sampleplugin.jar name YAAC Sample Plug-in version V0.0
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: starting web server...
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: YAAC starting main GUI....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: YAAC removing splash screen....
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: setting up common GUI table models...
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: starting bulletin board monitor...
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: starting firstWindow=map
OpenMap(tm) Version 5.0
? Copyright (C) BBNT Solutions LLC.? All rights reserved.
? See http://openmap.bbn.com/ for details.

Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: creating top map toolbar...
Wed May 13 18:11:54 MDT 2020: 1589415114980: starting to load symbol images...
1589415115316: finished loading 1.0.1 basic symbol images...
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: 1589415115316: done loading symbols.
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: adding map scale widget...
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: adding blinkenlight panel...
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: creating map footer...
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: setting up map hot-keys...
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: sizing main map window...
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: YAAC: GUI instantiated, now setting up GUI....
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: YAAC starting digipeater....
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: YAAC opening ports....
Wed May 13 18:11:55 MDT 2020: waiting for I/O starter for Port1:GPSD to finish
?? opening port PortConfig[Port1>GPSD,localhost,2947,]
?? opening port PortConfig[Port2>Yaesu,/dev/ttyUSB0,9600,KE7KUS-9]
old socket rcvBuf=65536
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: opening socket to GPSD @ localhost/127.0.0.1:2947
updated socket rcvBuf=65536
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: waiting for I/O starter for Port2:Yaesu to finish
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: initializing local station KE7KUS-9
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: YAAC starting beacon and persistent objects....
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: YAAC creating main menu bar....
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: about to create RasterMapOverlay layer...
renderCurrentMap[#2]: ABORT 0(0)/0 ways(0ur), 0/0 nodes, 0 signs, 0 files(1 new,0 missing) in 38msec @ zoom=620125.44 [32.869373,-105.728355]
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: about to create StationRenderer layer...
renderCurrentMap[#2]: ABORT 2(193)/426 ways(0ur), 0/0 nodes, 0 signs, 1 files(1 new,0 missing) in 95msec @ zoom=620125.44 [32.869373,-105.728355]
renderCurrentMap[#2]: ABORT 4(217)/2546 ways(0ur), 0/0 nodes, 0 signs, 1 files(0 new,0 missing) in 20msec @ zoom=620125.44 [32.869373,-105.728355]
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: creating bookmark menu...
Wed May 13 18:11:56 MDT 2020: YAAC startup completed.
renderCurrentMap[#2]: 294(5536)/65699 ways(0ur), 2/18706 nodes, 6 signs, 12 files(12 new,0 missing) in 707msec @ zoom=620125.44 [32.869373,-105.728355]
1589415122840: PortEditor: starting to create editor
1589415122841: PortEditor: starting to create per-driver cards
RXTX fhs_lock() Error: creating lock file: /var/lock/LCK..ttyUSB0: File exists1589415122865: PortEditor: loading editor class for Yaesu
1589415122867: PortEditor: creating card for Yaesu
1589415122930: PortEditor: creating card selector
updateHelpTag() from card org.ka2ddo.yaac.gui.io.YaesuPortEditor[,0,0,0x0,invalid,layout=java.awt.GridBagLayout,alignmentX=0.0,alignmentY=0.0,border=,flags=9,maximumSize=,minimumSize=,preferredSize=], help tag=configure.ports.Yaesu
1589415123042: PortEditor: selected appropriate default card Yaesu
1589415123042: PortEditor: created.
updateHelpTag() from card org.ka2ddo.yaac.gui.io.YaesuPortEditor[,0,0,560x91,layout=java.awt.GridBagLayout,alignmentX=0.0,alignmentY=0.0,border=,flags=9,maximumSize=,minimumSize=,preferredSize=], help tag=configure.ports.Yaesu
Wed May 13 18:12:10 MDT 2020: opening test port for Yaesu port /dev/ttyUSB0
Wed May 13 18:14:48 MDT 2020: closing test port for Yaesu port /dev/ttyUSB0

When run this way, the program initializes with no problems.? Opening the Configure Port dialog for the Yaesu port, everything appears normal.? Running the "Test Port" option on the config dialog brings up the small terminal window and the packets are displayed in the format denoted above.

I observed the same response regardless of the incoming packet rate.? The rate at which packets were displayed in the YAAC Test Port window was the same as the rate packets were displayed when running minicom pointed at the USB port.? The attached screenshot was from a run with build #145, but the runs with build #150 looked the same.? The attached text files are the full capture of a string of received packets (not displayed) and the CLI output noted above.

Yes, any software TNC program you want to use has to be running and available before YAAC tries to connect to it. Unlike Internet connections to APRS-IS, YAAC won't keep retrying to find the local software TNC, as said program generally won't fix itself without local human intervention (in which case, the local human can subsequently re-enable the YAAC port to the software TNC process).

I never knew YAAC would fail completely if the graphical desktop UI was too small. It can definitely be unusable (hence why the smallscreen plugin was developed), but it should keep trying to work with a somewhat munged UI.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Patrick KA9PDK <patrick.mcgillan@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 9:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] New User

OK, so I am using a remote connection to a raspberry pi. So far no problem. On the other hand, to save screen, I was shrinking down the window to see around it. That was the problem as the program was starting up. So after logging in several times, I made the screen full size and when running the program, everything started working. Now working through the setup screens. Does direwolf need to start before starting YAAC?