Feature requests? (GPS from phone, J28call utilities etc)

[Scott Tomlinson]

I'm not sure the place to put this, but I have been playing around with both digipi image and the 73linux build a pi script by  km4ack and it seems like there are a few things in the latter that would be great (and hopefully easy?) additions to digipi. I don't really have the skills for this, so just putting this out there in case someone who does agrees and can help make it happen:

1. GPS from phone: inspired by this video, I was already able to just modify the /etc/default/gpsd file to pull GPS data from my phone (Android app here or here, sounds like Iphone is "GPS2IP" or "NMEA Gps") over UDP. I think a lot of people would do this if it was an option right in the main UI, possibly could use KM4ACK GPS change tool for this purpose?

2. The JS8call utilities that make it easy to format js8call messages for SMS or email forwarding (among other js8call services) are very useful. I tried to just directly load to a digipi but I can't figure out how to enable viewing them via VNC without breaking the default digipi apps ability to open in VNC.

3. Other APRS app(s): I mostly just use aprsdroid and digipi is basically just a TNC. I understand iphones don't have as good of a native app, so it might be useful if they had a more full featured APRS app running on the digipi directly (especially for map view), e.g.  YAAC or Xastir or Pi-APRS. There are also some interesting open source projects specifically for PI, like this one that is messaging focused, which I have not used personally but from screenshots seem like a small improvement over the existing digipi webchat (and maybe if they develop an active developer community keep improving)? 

Short of making any of these parts of the official digipi image, is there a quick and dirty guide anywhere to how to enable VNC view of new apps I might want to try to sideload on an existing digipi, without breaking the existing digipi functionality? 

Thanks!