What would it take in terms of a fee/donation to get a “pickle button” function on the GPIO pins?
I really believe this is essential to hunting something like a repeater jammer.
I don’t trust my ability to hit the screen buttons accurately while moving, nor should I need that distraction while driving.
Most of the traffic on the repeater input frequency will be legit users. Without the button, I will end up clearing the data over and over and over waiting for the jammer to pop up. I also can’t predict for the Kraken how many signals to expect, nor is there any way for the Kraken to ident the jammer.
The simplest solution is the human pushes the button when the jammer is transmitting, and hopefully the repeater users are smart enough not to try to transmit over the jammer.
The existing button on the screen is small and located close to other screen buttons, making a mistaken press very likely especially while driving on less than perfect roads.
I suppose another way would be to make a “jammer mode” option with a big button center screen, but that seems more work and less ideal than a simple pickle switch.
Button open: Do not log data
Button closed: Log data
Showing the antenna pattern during the button open state would be useful in some cases, so i would prefer that to be the case, just don’t use any data collected while the switch is open to determine the transmitter position.
This would require one GPIO (configured for input) and one ground. A pullup resistor added to the GPIO of about 1k would assure a solid high when the button is open. The “pickle switch” is up to the user, but could be a pendant button like:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/switchcraft-inc/921KX/1832326
or a footswitch mounted properly, but all that’s up to the user.
High = Button open = Don’t log data.
I suppose a “use pickle switch” option would need to be in the configuration options.