kahn 0.0.1

A light-weight and energy-efficient NMEA message broker

Maritime Labs Kahn

About

A light-weight and energy-efficient NMEA message broker.

Note

Please note this is PRE-ALPHA quality software.

Features

• Read NMEA sentences from serial devices

• Submit NMEA sentences via UDP broadcast

Setup

pip install --upgrade kahn

To install the latest development version from the repository, invoke:

pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/maritime-labs/kahn#egg=kahn

Usage

# Read data from serial device and display on the terminal.
kahn forward --source=serial:///dev/ttyUSB0 --target=file:///dev/stdout

# Read data from serial device and forward to UDP broadcast.
kahn forward --source=serial:///dev/ttyUSB0 --target=udp+broadcast+nmea0183://255.255.255.255:10110

Other projects

• ROS NMEA NavSat driver: https://github.com/ros-drivers/nmea_navsat_driver (nmea_serial_driver, nmea_socket_driver)

• Waterlinked nmeaoutput.py waterlinked-nmeaoutput.py

Project information

Contributions

Any kind of contribution, feedback or patches are very much welcome! Just create an issue or submit a patch if you think we should include a new feature, or to report or fix a bug.

Development

In order to setup a development environment on your workstation, please head over to the development sandbox documentation. When you see the software tests succeed, you should be ready to start hacking.

Resources

• Source code repository

• Documentation

• Python Package Index (PyPI)

License

The project is licensed under the terms of the GNU AGPL license.