kplex 1.5

[Keith Young]

There's a bunch of fixes accumulated in the kplex develop branch over the last few years and it's getting time to  make a new release.

The pre-compiled binaries for older versions of kplex were compiled on a raspberry pi 1B with a wheezy-based raspbian meaning they could run on just about any pi / raspbian version but there were extra steps to support startup via systemd on more modern systems.

I still intend to compile on a pi 1B, but I intend to drop support for older versions of raspbian.  Let's face it, anyone who can be bothered to update kplex can probably update their OS.

I propose compiling packages for the current buster-based "raspberry pi OS (Legacy)", both 64 and 32 bit.  Does anyone have any arguments against that strategy? Obviously a range of OS and hardware versions would be ideal but I don't currently have the cycles...

[Dave Wright]

Yes, please do a new Raspbian release..!

And, please edit / update the docs to reflect the behavior in that release...

And, thanks for what you do have done, and will do..!

_Dave

[Sandro Rabitti]

I use kplex on my mini-router Gl-inet GL-MT300N-V2 Mango with OpenWRT.

My data come from : 

- original dAISy receiver

- Seatalk to USB converter

my kplex.conf:

[serial]
name=daisy
filename=/dev/ttyACM0
direction=in
baud=38400
optional=yes
[serial]
name=seatalk
filename=/dev/ttyUSB0
direction=in
baud=4800
optional=yes

[tcp]
mode=server
port=10110

direction=out

The dAISy needs a delay to come up after booting. I resolved putting a delay of 30" in /etc/rc.local before to call kplex.

I added

sleep 30

kplex &

at the end of /etc/rc.local

I do not start kplex as a service.

There is a better way to have a delay before to start kplex ?

Great job kplex ! Thank you Keit.

Sandro