...All received events are stored in a database and the daemon supports export of events to GPX, KML, CSV format. It is also possible to have specific action scripts executed upon receiving specific events or generate mail notifications.
The daemon and command shell comes with extensive reference documentation (HTML & PDF) and Unix man pages.
catty is a small utility to write+read to+from a serial tty device. You can use it in scripts, or directly writing some text to its stdin. With catty you can add in a few seconds serial communication to your shellscripts.