[drats_users] email to/from gateway connected D-RATS ?s

[Dan Smith]

> - Before 0.3.2b1 I could send email out of d-rats but had difficulty
> receiving "all" that were sent to the drats email. Now installing
> 0.3.2b1 and after testing, it appears that this has been resolved and
> that all emails are coming in. Thanks.

Excellent, glad to hear it!

> - Am going to now start interfacing drats to the dprs interface. Any
> caveats in doing this? I already have a validation code.

I'll let someone like Leo jump in here to comment on the rest.  He wrote
the original DPRS documentation on the website.  I don't use that, so
any help I try to provide will just be noise.

> 1) After connecting an external gps per the GPS preference settings
> in config, the latitude and longitude figures will change as the
> external gps feeds d-rats real-time data, right? Right now I have static
> figures in these fields, but want to confirm once an external gps is
> connected that dynamic "moving" gps data will be used by d-rats (if the
> gps is moving) for map plotting.

Yep, Exactly.

> 2) In setting up a "QST beacon" in GPS-A format, any remote stations
> with both d-rats and dprs running will receive each others gps data and
> put it up on each users d-rats map regardless of whether they have an
> internet connection or not, right?

Correct.

> 4) Am going to use a Byonics GPS2 that outputs in NMEA format. From
> the configuration manual it appears that I should plug the GPS directly
> into a serial port of the computer/laptop being used and not connect it
> to the dstar radio. 

Yes, it needs to plug into a serial port that D-RATS can read from.
However, IIRC, that is a TTL GPS and not an RS-232 one.  If so, you may
damage the GPS by plugging it into an RS-232 port, even though the
connector matches.

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