bnordgren / aprs-box

All the parts you need to put together an advanced APRS base station

APRS Box

This is a set of documentation, sources and binary packages to help you setup a standalone embedded computer solution for monitoring, digipeating and iGating APRS.

This is a work in progress, by all means please check it out, and contribute!

This is the companion site to this presentation:

APRS For All

You can read the documentation for this project here

aprs-box's Issues

docker containers for the various parts

• tile server
• web application
• aprsd
• direwolf
• gpsd

Document raspberry pi installation

Add/alter docs for raspberry pi, put in a pull request upstream.

Add dnsmasq

It should be possible to refer to the polaric webserver by a human friendly name. (like the web interface for netgear routers is routerlogin.net.) This may also help other wireless clients like APRSdroid find the aprsd instance running on the aprs-box.

This does assume that nothing else on the network is handling DNS or DHCP, so one might need to disable the DHCP function in a typical home wifi router.

Aerial Imagery compression

Ensure that aerial imagery follows guidance here:

http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2015/02/geotiff-compression-for-dummies.html