Hi Michael,
On 02.06.2017 23:13, Michael Fox - N6MEF wrote:
Marius,
A few questions about the dynamic map:
- How long does it take for an entry to appear on the map? I manually
entered the following URL into a browser (three times) but I don't see it on the map (CA, USA). http://44.182.21.1:59001/generic?id=n6mef@cm97aj
The entry appear immediately on the map (on reception, the daemon sends out a JSON event stream element to all listeners ASAP - less the 1 sec) .
- How long does an entry remain on the map after the last time you heard
from it? Dynamic is nice, but if a gateway is down for maintenance, it would still be good to know that it exists.
For the moment it stays on the map indefinitely (I still have to figure out how to delete a marker). In the internal buffer of the daemon it will be there for 1 hour and will be available on refresh for that time. But this can be changed anytime since it is just a define in the code.
- Follow-up to #2: Most similar applications (winlink2K, irlp) use the
colors or status tables to represent status (green=up, red=down, etc.). That would be more useful to me as a sysadmin than how the information was learned (which I realize is useful to you). For example, colors could represent age of information: green="heard from within the last hour", yellow="... within the last day", red="... within the last week". After that, if falls off the map. That would give us a hint as to whether the machine is more likely to be temporarily or permanently down. Would you consider?
This is just a starting point. We can do whatever we want. But again, to change the colors, I need to find out how to modify existing map markers. Still ToDo.
- Have you given any thought to Brian's suggestion that the input be in
the DNS LOC record format, rather than callsign@maidenhead? It seems like a good way to use your infrastructure while preparing for integration with more "standard" tools later.
As I said, it is our project, we can do whatever we need. I just wanted a quick start, to keep the momentum. Next steps are wide open from my side.