[aprssig] UI-view add-on for RFID?

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

Bob,

Thanks for finally telling us the callsign to look for to see your 
experiment (unless I missed it before).  I might get some minutes to rub 
against each other this weekend to cobble together a central server to 
do what you're after unless someone else steps up to the plate before 
me.  It won't be a UI-View add-on, but a central APRS-IS server (because 
that's what I do).

http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&call=USNA-1

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ

Robert Bruninga wrote:
>>> APRS RFID works. Maybe someone would consider 
>>> writing an add-on to UI-view so that UI-view 
>>> can display these APRS location reports directly? 
>>>       
>> It seems to me that you wouldn't need just an 
>> add-on for UI-View, but something to generate 
>> a standard APRS beacon that all APRS clients
>> would understand. 
>>     
>
> Yes, that is it exactly.  There only needs to be one of these in
> range of any APRS-RFD HotSpot that will then do the callsign
> association and then send the packet out onto APRS both RF and
> internet.  By making it a Uiview add-on, then it is easy to
> implement anywhere.
>
>   
>> Are any "RFID" beacons currently being generated 
>> and sent on RF or otherwise being injected into 
>> the APRS-IS? 
>>     
>
> Yes, my RFID HotSpot is using the call USNA-1 (the actual call
> appears later in the packet).  Each time I go into the lab door,
> you will see a packet on our local RF which hopefully is getting
> to the APRS-IS.
>
>   
>> Also, what translates the raw tag number into 
>> a callsign? 
>>     
>
> The UI-view add-on or other central processor code.
>
>   
>> Then what happens if e.g. my mobile continued to 
>> beacon every hour with the same callsign-SSID 
>> that was associated with the RFID card?  The 
>> concept should work in theory if the same 
>> callsign-SSID is used in both, but if the mobile 
>> continues to beacon, and the RFID card was only 
>> read once, the position would toggle back where 
>> the vehicle was parked.
>>     
>
> Good point.  But I think that is an operational problem that is
> less than desireable.  Those people who want their tag read,
> need to remember to turn off their mobile.  Or let it toggle.
> On the map, their track hitory will show they left the car, went
> inside, and then appear to go back and forth.  But we can only
> fix that operationally.. I think.
>
> The RFID spec is on: www.aprs.org/aprs-rfid.html
>
> Bob, WB4APR
>
>
>
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