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This tool has been developed for the Disaster Response, Public Safety and Frontline Healthcare community. This software is currently provided at no-cost to users. Any contribution you can make to further this project’s development efforts is greatly appreciated.

Installation

The APRS to COT gateway is service started with a command-line tool called aprscot. There are three options for installing aprscot, in order preferred option they are:

Option I: Install as a Debian / Ubuntu Package:

$ wget https://github.com/ampledata/pytak/releases/latest/download/python3-pytak_latest_all.deb
$ sudo apt install -f ./python3-pytak_latest_all.deb
$ wget https://github.com/ampledata/aprs-python/releases/latest/download/python3-aprslib_latest_all.deb
$ sudo apt install -f ./python3-aprslib_latest_all.deb
$ wget https://github.com/ampledata/aprscot/releases/latest/download/python3-aprscot_latest_all.deb
$ sudo apt install -f ./python3-aprscot_latest_all.deb

Option II: Install from the Python Package Index (PyPI):

$ python3 -m pip install aprscot

Option III: Install from this source tree:

$ git clone https://github.com/ampledata/aprscot.git
$ cd aprscot/
$ python3 setup.py install

Usage

The aprscot program has one command-line argument:

$ aprscot -h
usage: aprscot [-h] [-c CONFIG_FILE]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CONFIG_FILE, --CONFIG_FILE CONFIG_FILE

You must create a configuration file, see example-config.ini in the source repository.

An example config, COT_URL is our COT destination server or client:

[aprscot]
COT_URL = tcp://takserver.example.com:8088

APRS-IS Server-side Filter Commands can be used to filter incoming APRS Frames:

[aprscot]
COT_URL = tcp:takserver.example.com:8088
APRSIS_FILTER = f/W6PW-10/50

PLI Transforms can be created using per-station sections. In this example, we’re overriding W2GMD-9’s COT Type & Callsign, and NB6F-2’s Callsign:

[aprscot]
COT_URL = tcp:takserver.example.com:8088

[W2GMD-9]
COT_TYPE = a-f-G-U-C
COT_STALE = 600
COT_NAME = Medic 52

[NB6F-2]
COT_NAME = Transport 2

Source

Github: https://github.com/ampledata/aprscot

Author

Greg Albrecht W2GMD oss@undef.net

https://ampledata.org/

Copyright

• APRSCOT is Copyright 2022 Greg Albrecht <oss@undef.net>

• Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) is Copyright Bob Bruninga WB4APR (SK) wb4apr@amsat.org

License

Copyright 2022 Greg Albrecht <oss@undef.net>

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.