[Olsr-dev] adding latitude/longitude to txtinfo plugin

[Joe Gio]

On 06/09/2010 04:30 PM, Robert Wuttke wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 21:39 +0200, Henning Rogge wrote:
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>> Am Mittwoch 09 Juni 2010, 21:34:12 schrieb ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto):
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>>>> No, that is not possible. The lat/long data does only exist inside the
>>>> nameservice plugin, the OLSR-core does not know about it. At the>moment
>>>> there is no good way to communicate between different plugins and no way
>>>> to define dependencies between plugins.
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>>> maybe there is a way to have two plugins registering to the scheduler
>>> to read the same OLSR messages ?
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>>> if there is a way to let both txtinfoplugin and nameservice plugin to
>>> read the name service messages then you are done :)
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>> In the master branch we could just add a telnet command to the nameservice
>> plugin instead of modifying the txtinfo one.
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> This would be a nice compromise. I would also like to have an easy way
> to remotely retrieve the location of olsr-nodes.
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> Robert
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Remotely retrieving the location of nodes can be done with gpsd and the cgps utility.

Joe