Beacon not shown on Map 1.0-beta209

the Beacon is not showing on the map.

in the Beacon <TAB> i created a new beacon with - X Enabled station beacon Beacon Type: position, manual lat/lon, Display symbol: \#

the remaining setting are unchanged.

pressed the Save Changes button.

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i have enabled this beacon in both APRS-is and KISS over TCP.

and saved those changes as well.

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on the Map i do not see my station symbol.

further the BCN does not work - it has gray letters w/ white background.

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if i return to the Beacon <TAB> the Enable station beacon - no longer has a check in the box,

the Display symbol - textbox is empty/blank.

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i have tried to uninstall the program from the Pi4 by removing the folders - YAAC and yaac_folder.

after reinstalling the program the issues above are still present.

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is there another version of YAAC that i can use, if so where is located ?

thanks 73, dan

#2830

Greetings.

This problem is somewhat unclear., and will require further information to resolve.

1. When you saved your beacon settings, was the "enabled" checkbox checked before you clicked the "Save Changes" button? The "enabled" checkbox is part of what would be saved, so if you didn't enable it until after you had saved it, then you probably didn't save the enabling.

2. How many beacon definitions do you have? If you have created additional beacons over and above the default beacon record, each beacon's settings (including its enabled flag) is independent for each beacon definition. Do not keep creating duplicate beacon definitions that are redundant to the ones you already have; extra beacon definitions should be because you need a _different_ beacon definition.

3. On your APRS-IS and KISS-over-TCP ports, are they enabled for transmit? If they can't transmit, then your beacons can't be sent, and therefore will not be heard. And if there are no enabled beacons or no transmit-enabled ports, then the BCN button won't be enabled (why, when there is no way to transmit the beacon?).

4. Are you looking to receive your own beacons back? That will only happen if you are transmitting on RF, and have a digipeater in range to echo your beacon packets back to you. The APRS-IS backbone will _never_ send your own packets back to you (not even if they are heard by some other I-gate).

YAAC's configuration is not stored with the executable code; if you want to clear your configuration, start YAAC with the "-clear" command-line option, i.e.,

java -jar YAAC.jar -clear

to tell YAAC to erase all its configuration data when it starts up.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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Subject: [yaac-users] Beacon not shown on Map 1.0-beta209

the Beacon is not showing on the map.
in the Beacon <TAB> i created a new beacon with - X Enabled station beacon Beacon Type: position, manual lat/lon, Display symbol: \#
the remaining setting are unchanged.
pressed the Save Changes button.

i have enabled this beacon in both APRS-is and KISS over TCP.
and saved those changes as well.

on the Map i do not see my station symbol.
further the BCN does not work - it has gray letters w/ white background.

if i return to the Beacon <TAB> the Enable station beacon - no longer has a check in the box,
the Display symbol - textbox is empty/blank.

i have tried to uninstall the program from the Pi4 by removing the folders - YAAC and yaac_folder.
after reinstalling the program the issues above are still present.

is there another version of YAAC that i can use, if so where is located ?
thanks 73, dan

#2831

hi Andrew,

thanks for your reply because after i made a submission to yaac-users i thought my posting got lost.

i found your software from a youtube video at a conference you did many years ago.

what a wonderful product you have created for the community.

i didn't see any request for financial support;? is the there one ?

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i am sorry my description was so unclear, as i try hard to convey my issues to anyone whom i am asking help from.

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#1? 'in the Beacon <TAB> i created a new beacon with - X Enabled station beacon Beacon Type: position, manual lat/lon, Display symbol: \#
the remaining setting are unchanged.

[ however in the included image of 'southYampa' beacon below, i have subsequently changed the "Stable slow repeat rate (sec):" to a lower value, thinking this setting would increase the frequency of transmissions; after my first posting to yaac-users ]
lastly i pressed the 'Save Changes button.'

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i was working on the page with the Beacon <TAB>.

the 'X' was suppose to represent a 'check-mark' in the checkbox marked "Enabled station beacon"; i guess it should been done like this:?? [x]

the "Beacon Type" was set to 'position'

i manually entered the lat/lon

and the "Display symbol" was entered as '\#'

the remaining settings were left as defaults.

lastly i pressed the "Save Changes" button.

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so yes, i believe i have made the changes correctly and saved them.

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#2 "How many beacon definitions do you have?" i have only defined one additional beacon (including the default beacon, there are 2 total).

yes, i have it check-marked as enabled before saving the beacon definition.

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#3 "On your APRS-IS and KISS-over-TCP ports, are they enabled for transmit?"

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#3 cont. - the sequence i followed was to first setup the Beacon, then set up the Ports.

as stated in my first posting:

"if i return to the Beacon <TAB> the Enable station beacon - no longer has a check in the box,
the Display symbol - textbox is empty/blank"

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what i failed to say is that upon returning to the Beacon settings, the Default beacon is enabled as shown here:

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upon returning to the 'southYampa' Beacon, the setting have been disabled

and the "Display symbol" is removed even though i previously had applied the "Save Changes" button.

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my issues might occurring because i am unclear as to how the "Selected? Digipeat Paths in Proportional Path Order" are supposed to be setup. are these used in addition to the "Standard Digipeat Paths" ?

is the second group (Selected? Digipeat Paths in Proportional Path Order) creating some type of priority from the first group ("Standard Digipeat Paths" )

these settings may be related to the serial port setting problem i mention in my answer #4

what i mean here, is there something in the two groups above that should be add OR related to the serial port in order for digipeating ?

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#4 thank you for explaining this as i was not seeing my "Display symbol" icon on the map.

i would like to follow up on this sub-topic later because as you may have seen i have not been able to properly configure the serial port,

which i assume is required to have YAAC to operate as a DigiPeater.

p.s. i was afraid to add any more text or images of the serial port for concern that my posting here might crash after spending allthis time on it; so i am sending it without proofing it ? ? ? ;(

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thanks you Andrew for this fantastic program and i would like to support it financially, please let me know how.

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Beacon not shown on Map 1.0-beta209