One interesting thing to come out of the discussion with M0RXW was his work with the omnima embedded controller for APRS. I have blogged before about using APRS4R running on an Asus router flashed with Openwrt here at MB7UBP to reduce the cost and environmental impact of the Igate and this has been running for about 2 years now. Whilst APRS4R works many folks, including me, find it a bit clunky to use. Furthermore the Asus routers are now out of production so the aprs4r development team are looking at other hardware platforms.
In the meantime Reuben, M0RXW, has got Openwrt and APRX running on the Omnima (which with box and programming cable costs about £50 or $75). The flashing process looks a bit more involved and there is no GUI for settings, but these are both problems for me with APRS4R so I am not worried about that. How long will I be able to hold out before I splash the cash to play with one? I suspect it won’t be long…..
In the meantime Reuben, M0RXW, has got Openwrt and APRX running on the Omnima (which with box and programming cable costs about £50 or $75). The flashing process looks a bit more involved and there is no GUI for settings, but these are both problems for me with APRS4R so I am not worried about that. How long will I be able to hold out before I splash the cash to play with one? I suspect it won’t be long…..
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