So, another year, and another trip to Dayton Ohio for Hamvention.
ZL1RKO and I are doing a bit of a road trip and as well as Hamvention – see some of the US and hopefully get to see some AM towers and other broadcasting related sites around the country.
But when I pulled out the TinyTracker4,what do you know, the EEPROM is no longer accepting updates to the config, this being 2 and a bit weeks out from flying out…. OUCH.
I was looking forward to using APRS VoiceAlert while driving around and trying to meet some other Hams either on their way to Dayton – or just to socialise.
So in a very rushed thought process – decided to dust off the old Direwolf config, and see if I can modify it to do some more interesting things.
My current plan – as at 26 April 2024 – is to get Direwolf to hotspot to the mobile phone while driving – but with a twist.
As I have an iPhone push notifications *have* to go through the Apple Notifications service which is annoying – so I am going to try and get Direwolf to push a notification via Signal Messenger when either the RF or iGate detects someone within 10km of me – or push notification when someone has VoiceAlert but need to investigate that a bit more too.
The advantage of using this system, is I can also get GPSD to log my entire drive so I dont miss anything where iGates are not present.
My intention is update here as I get things working satisfactory – but with only 2 weeks to go, I might be unsuccessful – but hey – gotta give these things a go right..
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