I worked on HamBSD today, still looking at improvements to aprsisd(8). My focus today was on documentation, tests and tidying up. It’s good to keep technical debt in check and while no new big exciting features got made today on anything, lots of hard work was done. I started the day on documentation, adding details on the new -b flag for aprsisd and details on which packets will be sent to APRS-IS.
I worked on HamBSD today, still looking at improvements to aprsisd(8). My focus today was on writing unit tests for aprsisd. I’ve added a few unit tests to test the generation of the TNC2 format packets from AX.25 packets to upload to APRS-IS. There’s still some todo entries there as I’ve not made up packets for all the cases I wanted to check yet. These are the first unit tests I’ve written for HamBSD and it’s definitely a different experience compared to writing Python unit tests for example.
I worked on HamBSD today, still looking at improvements to aprsisd(8). My focus today was on gating from the Internet to RF. In the morning I cleaned up the mess I made yesterday with escaping the non-printable characters in packets before uploading them. I ran some test packets through and both Xastir and aprs.fi could decode them so that must be the correct way to do it. I also added filtering of generic station queries (?