An old Packet friend asked me if I had a script that could get an AEA pk88 in and out of KISS. No, I didn’t. But I do have a PK88. So why not try and see if I can make it work?
It gives me a headache. With 3x Ctrl-C, you can get it out of KISS in under a second. I mean, you have to type 3x Ctrl-C in one second. I had set the terminal speed to 9600 baud. I couldn’t get it to work until I set it to 19200 baud.
After quickly pressing Ctrl-C three times, I managed to get it out of Kiss. Now I can write a little script.
Kiss-on.sh
#!/bin/bash # # Script to put TNC's into KISS mode. # Set you terminal speed to 19200 (TBAUD 19200). # # Set KISS ON, Keep It Simple Stupid :) BAUD="19200" stty $BAUD < /dev/ttyUSB0 echo -ne 'KISS ON\r' > /dev/ttyUSB0 sleep 1
Kiss-off.sh
#!/bin/bash # # Script to get TNC's out of KISS mode. # Set you terminal speed to 19200 (TBAUD 19200). # BAUD="19200" stty $BAUD < /dev/ttyUSB0 echo -ne "\x03" > /dev/ttyUSB0 echo -ne "\x03" > /dev/ttyUSB0 echo -ne "\x03" > /dev/ttyUSB0 sleep 1 echo -ne "RESTART\r" > /dev/ttyUSB
So nice, that works….