techfixpros / qrmbot

qrm ham radio IRC bot and associated scripts

qrm IRC bot and command line tools

A collection of command line tools and wrapper scripts for the eggdrop IRC bot.

Eggdrop is an IRC bot written in C with a built-in TCL scripting environment. These IRC bot scripts are based around command-line tools written in perl with a TCL wrapper layer. The command line tools are designed to be standalone with VT220/ANSI terminal output, and have been adapted for IRC color output.

License

All original code is 2-clause BSD licensed. See LICENSE file.

The astro program has portions derived from K1JT Joe Taylor's wsjt program and is GPLv3 licensed. See COPYING file.

Usage

See the /r/amateurradio wiki page for qrm bot.

Dependencies

As tested on Debian:

• curl
• perl
• perl-base
• perl-modules
• libastro-satpass-perl (Astro::Coord::ECI -- see instructions below)
• libclone-perl
• libdate-manip-perl
• libdatetime-format-strptime-perl
• libdatetime-perl
• libjson-perl
• libmath-bigint-perl
• libmath-round-perl
• libswitch-perl
• libtext-csv-perl
• liburi-perl

Building libastro-satpass-perl

$ sudo apt-get install git dh-make-perl apt-file
$ sudo apt-file update
$ git clone 'https://github.com/trwyant/perl-Astro-Coord-ECI.git'
$ cd perl-Astro-Coord-ECI
$ git checkout 'v00.077'
$ dh-make-perl --vcs none --build

Would you like to configure as much as possible automatically? yes

What approach do you want? manual

$ sudo dpkg -i ../libastro-satpass-perl_0.077-1_all.deb

Configuration files

• $HOME/.adsbx -- API key for adsbexchange.com
• $HOME/.aerisweather -- API key for aerisweather.com
• $HOME/.aprs.fi -- required aprs.fi API key for aprs tool
• $HOME/.bitlyapikey -- key for bit.ly API
• $HOME/.clublogapikey -- API key for clublog.org
• $HOME/.coinmarketcapkey -- API key for coinmarketcap.com
• $HOME/.darksky -- API key for darksky.com
• $HOME/.googleapikeys -- key for Google APIs
• $HOME/.hamspotlogin -- required login credentials for hamspots.net use
• $HOME/.imgurkey -- API key for imgur.com
• $HOME/.nicks.csv -- irc and reddit nicknames -- optional, will override repository data
• $HOME/.qrzlogin -- required login credentials for qrz.com lookup
• $HOME/.wunderground -- required API key for WUnderground weather lookup

Cache files / state

• $HOME/.clublogusers.gz -- cache of clublog.org user data
• $HOME/.cty.dat -- cached DXCC data from country-files.com
• $HOME/.dmr-id-repeaters.csv -- cache of DMR repeater IDs
• $HOME/.dmr-id-users.csv -- cache of DMR user IDs
• $HOME/.hamspotcookies -- HTTP cookies for hamspots.net session
• $HOME/.icao-types -- cache of ICAO aircraft type data
• $HOME/.lotw-dates.txt -- cached LOTW upload dates
• $HOME/.mostwanted.txt -- cached DXCC "most wanted" data from clublog.org
• $HOME/.qrzcookies -- HTTP cookies for qrz.com session
• $HOME/.spottimestamps -- used for spots monitor mode; safe to remove

Security

Reasonable precautions have been made to filter out or escape shell special characters and so forth, but this is not foolproof. I suggest running the bot inside a minimal chroot without any setuid binaries, or a suitable VM, as needed.

TODO

1. Clean up and modularize TCL scripts
2. Document how to use and configure TCL scripts
3. Accept other formats for !setgeo
4. Use geo grid for !activity
5. Cleanup needed in qrz script
6. Add a preferred wx station in addition to !setgeo geo coords
7. If no callsign is specified with !spots use irc nick.
8. Requested by K1NZ: !untappd for beer info -- they are not giving out API keys. :(
9. Add clublog log check or clublog log search
10. Add clublog DXCC activity data
11. Add POTA
12. Move dotfiles to a dot dir
13. Add clublog league status
14. Add free space path loss calculation using gnu units.
15. Add wavelength and frequency calculation (free space and in-wire w/ velocity factor).
16. Add coax loss calculation by length, frequency/band and type.
17. Add nearest fires command from aeris wx api.

Contributors

• Chris K2CR
• AA4JQ
• Dan VK3DAN
• Josh W9VFR
• Oliver M6WRF
• Andrew KC2G
• Asara WX0R