David said:
>I just joined this group. I have a Microsat WX 3 N that is fully operational as a digipeter/Igate. I am also going
>to set up and configure my new Peet brothers weather station with it. I remember reading somewhere that
>YAAC could be connected to it, The unit is functioning very well as a digipeter/igate. It doesn't provide either
>messaging capability or object creation. What is the general scoop on using YAAC with it? Please advice. ?
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It looks like no one got back to you regarding using a Microsat WX3-in-1 as a TNC for YAAC. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with the device, so can only go with the documentation on the Microsat website.
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There appear to be a few ways to connect YAAC to your Microsat device:
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1. If you can Bluetooth bind the Microsat to your computer as a virtual serial port, you can use the Serial_TNC port type in YAAC to talk to that Bluetooth serial port, both send and receive. Note this may not work on Microsoft Windows, due to its peculiar way of opening Bluetooth SPP (Serial Port Protocol) connections; you should be OK on Linux or Mac OS X.
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2. You can make a KISS-over-TCP connection to the Microsat at its local LAN IP address (assigned by the router on the network it is plugged into), but I don't know what TCP port you should connect to (check the Microsat documentation). Also, they state on the data sheet that this is receive-only, so it probably won't meet your needs.
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3. You can make an APRS-IS server connection to the Microsat (rather than to the APRS-IS Internet backbone). Again, you would manually specify the LAN IP address assigned to your Microsat instead of using one of the stock domain names for backbone servers. Not sure if you would need to know your APRS-IS server passcode to be able to transmit through the Microsat.
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Good luck. Let us know if any of these work for you.
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Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
