Following is the original readme with basic setup info, my notes starts below in the section that starts with: DG4NOB upgrade.
Original source here https://github.com/sm3ulc/hab-wspr
The software webscrapes data from wsprnet.org, filter out calls from the balloons and decode additional telemetry. Currently the script supports upload to:
- habhub tracker ( https://tracker.habhub.org/ )
- aprs-fi ( https://aprs.fi ).
There are existing functions to load/save flightdata from csv/wsprnet-archive-files. ( http://wsprnet.org/drupal/downloads )
The protocol for the telemetry is described here:
First clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/sm3ulc/hab-wspr
The package requires some extra modules that need to be installed via pip or similar
apt install python3-httplib2 python3-requests python3-bs4
For windows users install anaconda with python 3.
pip install httplib2 pip install bs4
Edit balloon.ini and add aprs-is user etc. Add balloons on the format:
[ habhub name, aprs-wspr-call, band in mhz, channel, timeslot, datetime, html_push, aprs-ssid, aprs_comment]
habhub name = fancy name to use on habhub
aprs-wspr-call = call to use for aprs data
band in mhz - band to use, i.e 20m band is 14 Mhz
channel - channelnumber 0 to 15
timeslot - 0 to disable use of timeslots. 1-5, use correspondent slot 00, 02, 04 etc.
datetime - starttime in isoformat to calculate duration
html_push 1 to push html page otherwise 0, ONLY for one balloon
aprs-ssid - the ssid to use with aprs-call
aprs_comment - comment to use for comment in aprs-packet
To run on linux: (with default config file balloon.ini)
python3 webscrape.py
The scripts work with a database in sqlite. It can be used to do all kinds of output/export like checking the last sent spots:
sqlite3 wsprdb.db 'select * from sentspots order by time_sent desc limit 30'
Adjust your balloon.ini or other configfile like test.ini.
Goto http://wsprnet.org/drupal/downloads or
wget http://wsprnet.org/archive/wsprspots-2019-12.csv.gz
Extract data from archive and append filtered spots to spots.csv in and then process.
python3 webscrape.py --archive wsprspots-2019-12.csv.gz --conf test.ini
Read csv-file from spots.csv and process.
python3 webscrape.py --csv spots.csv
To use this pythonscript on windows I use Anaconda Python which you can download here
https://www.anaconda.com/download/success
After install, in Anaconda Navigator open a Terminal window, go to base (root) Terminal like in this picture and do the install of the libs
pip install httplib2
pip install bs4
Then instead of runing the full Anaconda you can just call the core component with a small .bat filet containing the following lines, edit to your preference,
the file is above as scrape.bat
call C:\Users\i3\anaconda3\Scripts\activate C:\Users\i3\Anaconda3
cd C:\Users\i3\Dropbox\Hab Wspr upload-10m\webscraper
call C:\Users\i3\anaconda3/python.exe "webscrape.py"
PAUSE