Fixed issue where digipeated/igated packets were losing their ‘repeated’ flag when copied, causing QTH to think the packets were originating locally. This bug was introduced in 0.7.0.
Added support for “tactical” source callsigns on RF connections. Licensed callsign will be automatically appended to comment
I/O graph legend now shows active connection counts
Favourites that are created without an SSID will now match all stations with a matching callsign
The “go to my location” button has been changed to a “follow my location” toggle. Clicking it will center the map on your location and keep it centered as you move. Panning the map away will cancel it.
Graphs should now match the current dark/light appearance
Fixed CoreBluetooth auth for OS X 10.15+ for BLE GPS Connection
ATTENTION ALL AUDIO MODEM USERS: This version fixes an inadvertent attenuation to the TX audio amplitude. The sine wave was being multiplied by 0.25, causing the resulting audio signal to only be a quarter of full volume. If you have increased the volume on your hardware to compensate for this, you will want to test with the new, non-attenuated output
Added a delay to wait for Kenwood D710 to restart in KISS mode before attempting to send the first packet #115
The new GPU-accelerated audio level meter was crashing on Macs without the necessary video card support. Added a fallback level meter to support these machines and resolve the crash.
Overhauled the audio level meter for the Audio Modem
Removed the RX column in Connections window. Most connections don’t have a RX rate large enough to show up as more than a blip on the indicator, making it seem like the meters are broken. The RX/TX stats graph on the local info panel shows effectively the same information in a more intuitive manner.
Switched AudioModemConnection to using device UIDs instead of device names to more accurately identify devices that are plugged and unplugged and also devices that create separate input and output devices with the same name. Looking at you SignaLink USB 🙂
Fixed a problem with Signalink USB where it creates two audio devices that are named the same and QTH was wrongly selecting the output device for input
Commands sent to the TNC should no longer count towards the TX stats
Fixed error messages coming from input/output devices that don’t support volume changing
Fixed bug where destination TOCALL field was being replaced with QTH’s default TOCALL. Not an issue for packets that originate from QTH, but could cause device misidentification for digipeated packets
This is a refactoring release. No new features added or bugs fixed. However, I am surgically separating the core APRS engine from the macOS UI, so that the APRS engine can build and run cross platform on iOS.
Removed accidental ‘transparent’ setting on the digipeater route buttons #93
Fixed the AX.25 SSID encoding to support a full 4-bit SSID instead of just 0-9 #92
Replaced the built-in MKUserLocation annotation with a custom one. The MapKit-supplied MKUserLocation only supports Location Service, whereas the custom one now supports the other locations sources such as manual and GPS
Fixed a bug where frequency information was not being passed from packet to entity records when the entity is first received #90
Removed speed/course averaging in GPS connections – it’s too slow for good corner pegging
Changed connection stats graph to a bar graph instead of line graph. Seems more appropriate for discrete data
Fixed thread safety issue when removing cleared stations
Added code to remove stations from station list when they have not been heard from in longer than the station clear time
Added time interval constraint on geocode lookup for local station; I noticed it updated too frequently when traveling at highway speeds
Adjusted SmartBeaconing to disregard course changes when traveling below the Slow Speed; the GPS course data tends to jump around when not moving
Additional error handling in NMEA sentence parsing
Fixed bug where the message unread badge would appear on the dock icon but viewing the messages would not clear the count
Printing the map now works for everything except for tile overlays like OpenStreetMap that draw asynchronously as the tiles load
Figured out the station fading mystery – ObjectAnnotation.update was not calling super
Implemented a maximum map extents filter. By default, if the map extents span more than 20° of longitude, it will not send the filter to APRS-IS. To prevent the “firehose” effect.
Fixed a bug causing objects to be retained on the map far longer than the max clear time because they were incorrectly marked as ‘mine’. If you’ve ever left QTH on over night and woke up to just a bunch of digipeaters on the map, this is why
Added USNG / MGRS as a coordinate display format option (in Preferences)
The search box will now accept USNG coordinates, in addition to the other format types, with the exclusion of Maidenhead. The standard Maidenhead spec specifies a grid area, rather than a specific lat/lon point.
Added a pin tool to the drawing tool palette. Up to this point, you could drop pins by typing a coordinate into the search box. The pin tool simply lets you choose the coordinates with the mouse.
Major UI code refactoring to support multiple map windows. (As requested by Steve K4HG)
Map windows should now retain their view settings and map extents through restarts
New Layers! Layers for OpenStreetMap, OpenTopoMap, CyclOSM, and, a huge goal of mine, a Local Tile Server for offline maps. Look for an article coming soon on how to set this up. More layer types to follow.
It is now possible to import and export GPX files and export KML. (Import for KML is coming, but it’s a much more complicated format)
Moved the station menu from a popup button on the station panel to the main application menu. This feels more Mac-like to me and more discoverable.
SmartBeaconing is now implemented, with permission from Steve Bragg, KA9MVA
Implemented proportional pathing for interval beacons #80
Custom AX.25 paths are now supported, with “Path Profiles” renamed to “Path Presets” #79
The history purging process is now working as intended and preserves stations you’ve marked as favorites and packets that have originated from your station.
Fixed bug where loaded tracks were disappearing during maintenance because of an ID mismatch due to the ID cache
Tracks are now loaded as one event instead of a sequence of packet events
Fixed bug where symbol was not displaying on local object list
Fixed bug where a renamed object could appear multiple times on the entity list
Fixed bug where timeline timestamp was showing up even when not scrolling the timeline
Enhanced About page to include an EULA and Acknowledgements
APRSManager no longer has a single map region
Fixed bug with entity update notifications not being sent when initially saved to the database (not dirty)
Fixed retain cycles so that MainMapViewController is deallocated when the map window is closed
Fixed bug where the display point being used by CrosshairsButton was not in the correct coordinate system
Moved map layer toggles away from UserDefaults to properties of QTHMapView. This is so that multiple map windows can have separate settings
Fixed crash when failing to detect any usable string from an unknown character set #83
Fixed bug when parsing SSIDs received over an AX.25 connection with a 2 digit SSID
Weather stations that send Peet reports should now properly show up as a weather station in the info panel
Increased font size on info panels from “System Small” to “System Regular”
Stations that beacon non-position packets, like telemetry, are now visible in the station list even if they cannot be placed on the map #78
Fixed issue where message ack processing was using the recipient instead of the sender to find the correct message to ack
Fixed issue where duplicate messages were being sent due to reply-ack processing #82
Provided a different default value for the QRU distance preference for metric users #81
Mobilinkd connections will now turn off the verbose setting when starting the connection. According to the Rob, having verbose logging on “will reduce the TNC’s ability to decode”
Fixed bug in decoding longitude in certain Mic-E packets
Implemented a Setup Assistant to help new users set up QTH for the first time. It will be shown on startup when no connections have been configured. It can also be found on the Help menu
Set the default symbol to /M – The Apple logo originally created for MacAPRS
An attempt to send a beacon without a symbol selected will now fail
Decreased the logging level for errors that occur when loading packets from the database
Fixed a crash on macOS 10.14 when displaying a user notification. A new API was introduced in 10.14, but one of the notification properties was not introduced until 10.15 #76
Fixed negative speed coming in from core location
Fixed the map extents filter; the filter commands were missing the EOL characters
Added a crosshair location picker to both the APRS-IS range filter and the manual beacon location in Preferences. Instead of entering the coordinates manually, you can click the crosshairs button and choose the location using the map.
Fixed APRS-IS filter field sizes in Big Sur #65 #73
Silenced warnings about accessing CLLocationManager.location before it is ready in Big Sur
Changed toolbar items to automatic width to silence Big Sur warnings
Fixed malformed compressed packets when the last byte in the base91 sequence happened to be zero
APRS-IS connections should now react properly to toggling on the transmit flag
Reduced BeaconManager debug logging
Coordinate parsing is now even more lenient. Hopefully it will recognize anything that even remotely looks like a latitude/longitude pair. A comma separator is accepted, but no longer required. Commas as decimal separators are now accepted. The cardinal directions are not localized yet, so continue to use NSEW, rather than NSOW (de), NSEO (fr) #69 #66
Add a numbers-only formatter to the SSID field(s) to prevent someone from entering “-9”
Added a Map Type to the View menu to switch the map view type
When autostarting an APRS-IS connection with a map extents filter, it will now wait until the map is initialized before connecting so that the filter is set correctly
Setting SO_KEEPALIVE on sockets to hopefully speed up the detection of servers that have closed the connection
Auto-reconnect is now implemented for APRS-IS connections. It will retry exponential backoff. i.e. 1s, 2s, 4s, 8.. up to 32s before failing
Now detects network reachability. Will immediately disconnect if the network disappears and reconnect when it comes back, if auto reconnect is enabled
Default filter for new APRS-IS connections is now map extents, instead of a “my range filter”, since unlicensed users can’t send their position
Added callsign and ssid to APRS-IS config to accommodate unlicensed users and licensed users that want to use a different callsign for the connection
Thank you to David CT1DRB/OK8RB