aprsd-irc-extension 0.0.5

What is it?

This is a pypi package for the APRSD project that adds an IRC server to APRSD

The IRC server has support for multiple channels and users. This allows for group based chats with APRS. Users can create/join a channel and send messages to that channel. Everyone else in the channel gets those messages and can reply.

Running APRS IRC Server as ‘IRC’

There is an existing running instance of the IRC server under the APRS network callsign of ‘IRC’. To connect to this server and join the default channel, send an APRS message to ‘IRC’ with the following text in the message body:

/join #lounge

This will join you to the default channel of #lounge. You can then chat with others in that channel by sending messages to the channel.

Using the IRC server

First you must join an existing channel. Every instance with this extension has a default channel of #lounge. You can join that channel by sending an APRS message to ‘IRC’ with the following text in the message body:

Installing

To install the extension, you have to have an install of APRSD already. That is typically installed into a virtualenv. You can then install this extension into the same virtualenv.

pip install aprsd-irc-extension

Then you can add the following to your aprsd config file:

[aprsd-irc-extension]
enabled = True
default_channel = #lounge

Running the IRC server

Once you have installed the extension, you can start the server by running the following command:

aprsd irc server --loglevel debug