To be consistent with the other modules, the positioning server must be
called OwlPS Positioner instead of Positioning, and the executable
owlps-positionerd (even if the daemon mode is not implemented yet).
That's a big commit for a tiny change.
Aggregation time, check intervals, etc.
By default the aggregator cannot fully aggregate calibration requests
any more, only the positioning and autocalibration requests.
In order to aggregate calibration requests, the aggregation timeout
needs to be increased, or the number of packets of the request and
the delay between each of them lowered.
Differentiate the port on which the autocalibration hello messages are
sent to the aggregator by the listeners, and the one on which the
autocalibration orders are sent by the aggregator to the listeners.
This will allow to run a listener and an aggregator on the same machine
with autocalibration enabled.
Both in the listener and the aggregator, the option -a (autocalibration
port) has been replaced by the options -O (autocalibration order port)
and -H (autocalibration hello port). In the listener, the option -H was
previously used to set the hello delay; this is now the role of the -T
option.
The autocalibration requests are now sent on the same port as the
positioning request, by default. There was no real reason to send them
on a different port.
From time to time, the length of the radiotap header (rtap_bytes in
read_packet()) is 65535. This is a quick & dirty fix to avoid segfaults,
but we should search for the reason why this value sometimes appears.
Modify the *time*() functions to avoid passing structures in arguments
(using const pointers instead) or returning structures (using result
arguments instead).
In the listener & aggregator, the signal strength is stored as an
unsigned byte. To display the actual (negative) value, one must
substract 256 (0x100) to the unsigned value.
This commit changes several things:
- Use the decimal (256) instead of the hexadecimal value (0x100).
- Don't substract 256 when copying the value to another unsigned byte
(aggregator).
- Be careful with the type length. In the positioning server, a SS
could be copied to a signed byte, while (theoretically) the negative
value can exceed the capacity of the signed byte. measurement.hh now
defines a type ss_t to store a signal strength value with the good
size (it is currently an int_fast16_t).
"start_time" was meaningless in the global data structures of owlps.h,
and could lead to errors in the aggregator, since it defines a field
start_time in one of its internal structures.
Fix some typos and reorganise the command-line options' descriptions.
Rename positioning.radar-* --> positioning.radar.*
Same in the sample configuration file.
Add the compile-time option ENABLE_KEEP_MONITOR to enable/disable the
option -K. That allows to make optional the dependency on iwlib.
This option is disabled by default in the Makefiles.
If an algorithm name is specified more than once (e.g. once in the
configuration file and once on the command line), the algorithm is
now executed only once.
Matteo Cypriani