Pi-StAPrS - Script for Pi-Star & APRS

Gathers GPS and Pi-Star Info to beacon to APRS-IS as location & comment

About

This script was originally written a couple of years ago to do two things:

gather & parse GPS information for an APRS packet
scrape Pi-Star for Talkgroup/Reflector for APRS comment
blast those to APRS-IS

The scripts were originally written to run directly on the RPi running Pi-Star; scraping the information locally and getting GPS from another Pi running gpsd. A simple PHP interface was hacked together to turn the beacon on and off. The entire thing was just permanently set as an every 5-minute cronjob.

Pi-Star has some sort of GPS stuff built-in to it; but I couldn't figure out how to make it work. It's also been a few years since I tried to even run it in it's current state. I plan on making use of it soon; so it will likely see re- writes. In fact the method of scraping has changed entirely.

I also lost the php that handled the activation.

Some of this has been resurrected as a hotspot information display. I will update this spot when I get it's repository up. The original page is at: https://pickmy.org/?page_id=136

History

07-MAY-2022 - Initial Commit

License

Pi-StAPrS - Script for Pi-Star & APRS
Copyright (C) 2022 Jay Moore - nq4tango@gmail.com

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