[GreenKeys] TTY to Ethernet Converter or TTYoIP

[Keelan Lightfoot]

Eugene,

It was George Hutchison that mentioned to me the possibility of hooking ITTY into this system. The software he uses to run the ITTY broadcasts supports telnet access; I would need to create a small program that would connect to George's servers and relay that data into a TTYoIP server/channel.

Page 12 of this document describes what is available from the innards of ITTY:

http://www.k7tty.com/development/software/RTTYApp.pdf

My server 'breathes ASCII'. The ASCII to ITA2 conversion will take place inside the gateway device. 

I've contemplated creating up an interface to configure the device from the TTY, but it is a feature that won't appear until a later version of the software. My current plan is to have the device pick up an IP address via DHCP, which it will then print via the TTY. With that address in hand, you can use a computer to access the web based management tool to change the address or any other settings. But ultimately, I would like to cut the computer out of the equation entirely.

- Keelan 

Eugene wrote:

> Very interesting, indeed.  If you plan to connect to ITTY, right now
> that is only an audio stream. I wonder if a text stream could be sent
> out (ascii encoded ITA#2, basically a seven bit character, but ignore
> the top 2 bits and just use the bottom 5 for the baudot character).
> If a telnet server could be set up to send this data then your black
> box would be much easier (no audio processing at all).
> 
> This sounds like a very interesting project! I could envision that the
> black box could be configured from the TTY itself. Maybe by selecting
> some escape sequence, the system goes into "local mode" and commands
> can be issued from the TTY to the black box and status could be
> reported from the box and printed on the TTY. Once the config is all
> set up, a "REMOTE" command is given and now its printing what comes
> over the Ethernet.
> 
> Neat possibilities!
> 
> 73 Eugene W2HX