APRS tracker and communicator for mobile devices written in python / elementary. Targeted especially for the Openmoko Freerunner it utilizes FSO freesmartphone middleware framework. Tested and used on SHR, where atrack is in repos, so to install type: opkg install atrack
Atrack can also track on different services, i.e. support for youloc.net, but then it acts as a dumb tracker.
Please note that usage within the aprs network requires amateur radio license, but for non-commercial usage you can run your own FOSS aprsd server http://sourceforge.net/projects/aprsd/, this is given by the license of the APRS protocol, both aprsd server and atrack are FOSS). You can also run a fake small perl script server PrivateAPRS_IS_FakeServer
Features
- aprs login with a try to autoreconnect on failure
- aprs filter support
- receive messages/bulletins
- create/reply/forward message
- predefined text strings for quick messaging
- predefined list of recipients
- ack autosend
- tracking + smart tracking – corner pegging (tracking on APRS and also on http://youloc.net/ )
- packet compression used on all packets
- pause tracking during phone call
- send status message
- send last know location
- calculate locator grid
- display nearby stations, objects, items
- edit/save into conf file
- portrait/landscape/fullscreen/day/night mode
- screen dim/suspend blocking
- APRS Query – replying to aprs query for position and status
- send any Direct query, predefined Q for P, S, M, O, H, D
- create, edit Objects and Items with predefined names
- Mic-E encoded packets initial support (shows some funny failures sometimes)
- display a map with position with an object/station – based on Openstreetmap or actually on http://ojw.dev.openstreetmap.org/StaticMap/
Requires
http://code.google.com/p/atrack/