SUMMARY ======= A small daemon to listen for particular MQTT messages from Owntracks, parse the JSON, and relay it to an APRS server INSTALL ======= 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 ========= 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 === 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 ==== Recieve APRS data from APRS server Handle multiple APRS callsigns and topics