PACTOR connections with Pat on Android

[Michael Woodmansee]

Reviewing the 2022 GitHub wiki PACTOR connections with Pat on Android I noticed the comment "Pat compiled on Android. I will provide a detailed guide in the future." I'm  curious if there is any further guidance out there for compiling Pat on Android and any complications with current Android 15 devices.

[kf4...@hotmail.com]

I'd be interested in that too. Not so much the PACTOR, but Pat on Android.

[Michael Woodmansee]

I was able to get Pat running on my Google Pixel 8 Pro using Termux, which is installed through F-Droid.

With Termux running, these commands seem to do the trick:

~ $ pkg install golang
~ $ pkg install perl
~ $ pkg add socat
~ $ apt install git
~ $ git clone https://github.com/la5nta/pat
~ $ cd pat
~/pat $ ./make.bash

Then test it out!
~/pat $ ./pat configure
~/pat $ ./pat compose
~/pat $ ./pat connect telnet

Let me know if it works for you!

I'm going to work on the Bluetooth connection with my P4dragon next to see if I can get everything running for PACTOR.

Regards,
Mike KO6CGS

[kf4...@hotmail.com]

Everything was going smooth till I got to configuration. It's looking for a text editor obviously, but I'm clueless to fix this on Android.

~/pat $ ./pat configure
2024/12/07 19:21:21 Unable to start editor: exec: "vi": executable file not found in $PATH

[kf4...@hotmail.com]

Ok not a cluless as I thought :) 

~ $ pkg install vim

[kf4...@hotmail.com]

I had to find a cheat sheet to operate VIM to edit config, but it's working now. I used the web GUI to make a telnet connection.

Thanks for the instructions!