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. This has been updated for the new scraping method. I also lost the php that handled the activation.

Some of this has been resurrected as piscrape - Hotspot Info Display For PHP. The original PiStaprs page is offline. I saved most of the data but need to convert it.

I have not run this script in quite some time. I developed it to be as future-proof as possible and to my knowledge, most of the stuff still works. Scraping techniques need to be imported from PiScrape. Your milage may vary. Not responsible for any damage to your hotspot installation. Please do not flood APRS-IS with garbage from this script.

History

07-MAY-2022 - Initial Commit
12-MAY-2022 - update scrape. fix fatal bugs
21-JAN-2023 - Update Readme

License

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

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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