aprspy 0.3.0

An APRS parser for Python

Introduction

aprspy is an APRS packet parser and generator for Python.

Currently supports:-

• Decoding

  • Standard compressed/uncompressed location packets

  • Mic-E location packets

  • Message packets (including bulletins and announcements)

  • Status report packets

• Encoding

  • Uncompressed location packets

  • Message packets

Usage

Brief usage explanation:

>>> from aprspy import APRS
>>> packet = APRS.parse('XX1XX>APRS,TCPIP*,qAC,FOURTH:=5030.50N/10020.30W$221/000/A=005Test packet')
>>> packet
<PositionPacket: XX1XX>
>>> packet.latitude
50.508333
>>> packet.longitude
-100.338333
>>> packet.course
221

Documentation

Documentation can be found at https://aprspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

Development

Dependencies needed for development can be installed with pip install -r dev-requirements.txt.

The documentation can be built locally by running make in the docs/ folder.

Copyright

This module is released under the MIT License, and is copyright 2019 Andy Smith <[e-mail]>