mqtt-aprs/README.md

mqtt-aprs

Connects to the specified APRS-IS server, and posts the APRS output to MQTT. Can parse parameters, or dump the raw JSON.

This script uses the aprslib python function to do the heavy APRS lifting.

INSTALL

sudo apt-get install git python-pip

sudo pip install setuptools
sudo pip install setproctitle
sudo pip install paho-mqtt
sudo pip install aprslib

mkdir /etc/mqtt-aprs/
git clone git://github.com/mloebl/mqtt-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
pdate-rc.d mqtt-aprs defaults
cp /usr/local/mqtt-aprsp/mqtt-aprs.default /etc/default/mqtt-aprs

Edit /etc/default/mqtt-aprs and /etc/mqtt-aprs/mqtt-aprs.cfg to suit:

/etc/init.d/mqtt-aprs start

APRS is a registered trademark Bob Bruninga, WB4APR