README

SUMMARY
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A small daemon to listen for particular MQTT messages from Owntracks, parse the JSON, and relay it to an APRS server

INSTALL
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sudo apt-get install python-mosquitto git python-pip python-simplejson python-setproctitle

mkdir /etc/mqtt-aprs/
git clone git://github.com/kylegordon/mqtt-aprs.git /usr/local/mqtt-aprs/
cp /usr/local/mqtt-aprs/mqtt-aprs.cfg.example /etc/mqtt-aprs/mqtt-aprs.cfg
cp /usr/local/mqtt-aprs/mqtt-aprs.init /etc/init.d/mqtt-aprs
update-rc.d mqtt-aprs defaults
cp /usr/local/mqtt-aprs/mqtt-aprs.default /etc/default/mqtt-aprs
## Edit /etc/default/mqtt-aprs, /etc/mqtt-aprs/mqtt-aprs.cfg to suit
/etc/init.d/mqtt-aprs start

CONFIGURE
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Configuration is stored in /etc/mqtt-aprs/mqtt-aprs.cfg
Enter your MQTT server hostname and port, and your APRS server, port, callsign, and APRS-IS pass

USE
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The client will listen for messages on a particular topic, which carry the owntracks messages in JSON format.
When a message is recieved, it will attempted to parse it into latitude, longitude, etc, and post it to the APRS server

TODO
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Recieve APRS data from APRS server
Handle multiple APRS callsigns and topics