APRS Mobile

Beacon the way your station actually works, and a fix for background beaconing. • Four ways to beacon, in Settings › Beaconing and from the beacon button on the map: Off, SmartBeacon, Every so often, and Fixed position. Tap the button and pick one — the panel shows which is in use. • Fixed position is for a home station: type your latitude and longitude once and beacon from it. No GPS, no location permission, no drift, no battery cost. • Every so often is the simple one: a beacon every so many seconds, from wherever you are, and an optional minimum distance so a parked station stays quiet. • Network TNC: send and receive over the air through a KISS TNC on your network — Direwolf on a Raspberry Pi, or a TNC behind a serial-to-WiFi bridge. Settings › Network TNC. It can be on at the same time as a Bluetooth TNC and the software modem. • Fixed: SmartBeacon could go quiet for a whole drive with the app in your pocket. iOS wakes the app on significant changes of position, and those positions are worked out from cell towers and Wi-Fi, so they are often too rough to publish — the app held every one of them back and never gave up waiting. It now sends one anyway once you have been quiet for your Slow Rate, because a position a few hundred metres out beats no position at all. • Also fixed: SmartBeacon's rates never applied in the background without High Precision. A wake-up carries no speed, so the app read every one as a station standing still and used your Slow Rate. It now beacons on each wake-up instead, never closer together than your Fast Rate, and says so under Settings › Beaconing › What Happens in the Background. • A typed latitude or longitude is no longer rounded to a tenth of a degree.