aprspy - An APRS packet parser for Python
Introduction
aprspy is an APRS packet parser and generator for Python.
Currently supports:-
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- Decoding
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- Standard compressed/uncompressed location packets
- Mic-E location packets
- Message packets (including bulletins and announcements)
- Status report packets
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- Encoding
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- 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 <andy@nsnw.ca>