[aprssig] APRS activity triggering a text or email notification via internet push

[Eric Hansen]

Getting an update about ham radio through a commercial service is in no way
prohibited as far as I know. The reverse is probably not true.

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:35 AM, John Gorkos <jgorkos at gmail.com> wrote:

> It "can" be done.  It hasn't yet.  What you're asking for is 4-6 hours of
> custom coding (mostly for the web interface).  Do you have a web server
> that
> can host something like this?  I've got a few hours this weekend I can use
> to
> code this.
> Let me make sure I've got the requirements right:
> You want a web interface that allows you to enter a "monitored" call sign,
> and
> an email address to send a message to when that position report from that
> monitored callsign indicates movement.  You want one message only.  Then,
> time
> passes and the monitored station stops moving.  Once the station starts
> moving
> again, you want another text message.
> The SMS messages will have to be sent via email (i.e.
> 2125551212 at sms.verizon.com), since a direct SMS interface is spendy and
> less
> standard.
>
> Do you have any programming skills you could apply to this?  Web design,
> maybe?  I hate web design, but the back-end portion isn't too difficult.
>  This
> request will probably irritate some people on this list, FWIW.  Everyone
> has
> an imaginary line they draw between "ham radio" and "commercial radio and
> internet."  Using your cellphone/commercial radio to get updates about APRS
> happenings on ham radio is probably on the far side of some peoples' lines.
>
> John Gorkos
> AB0OO
>
> On Thursday, February 10, 2011 18:48:04 Steve Hanis wrote:
> > Thank you for your reply. I am looking for a way to trigger an email, IM
> or
> > SMS using existing web interfaces. A way to "push" an alert to me when I
> am
> > working or relaxing at home. Can this be done?
> > Kind Regards,
> > Steve
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Guido Trentalancia
> > <iz6rdb at trentalancia.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Steve !
> > >
> > > On Mon, 07/02/2011 at 22.19 -0600, Steve Hanis wrote:
> > > > A friend and I just starting using APRS.  Is there way to trigger a
> SMS
> > >
> > > text
> > >
> > > > message or email via Internet monitoring when his APRS goes active or
> > >
> > > moving?
> > >
> > > > This would let me know he is mobile and available to chat or view his
> > >
> > > location
> > >
> > > > on a map. My apologies if the question is too simplistic for this
> > > > list, I am a newbie.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Steve
> > > > AB5ID
> > >
> > > Suppose your friend has call AB4HB, then you could use something like:
> > >
> > > FROMEMAILADDRESS=dmesteve at gmail.com
> > > MYEMAILADDRESS=dmesteve at gmail.com
> > > APRSCALLSIGN=AB4HB
> > > SMTP_SERVER=smtp.ab5id.org
> > > axlisten -a | grep -q " fm $APRSCALLSIGN to " && echo "An APRS packet
> > > from $APRSCALLSIGN has been heard" > /tmp/aprs_message.txt && env
> > > MAILRC=/dev/null from=$FROMEMAILADDRESS smtp=$SMTP_SERVER mailx -v -n
> -s
> > > "Mail from APRS" $MYEMAILADDRESS < /tmp/aprs_message.txt && rm
> > > -f /tmp/aprs_message.txt
> > >
> > > Note that APRSCALLSIGN is case sensitive (unless you pass the -i option
> > > to grep). Note that SMTP_SERVER needs to be defined according to your
> > > actual smtp server.
> > > Most importantly note that the above will send out an email message for
> > > every packet that is received from APRSCALLSIGN and this might not be
> > > desirable as there might be a lot of packets coming continuously (so
> you
> > > might do things better with some extra code that checks whether a
> > > message has already been sent recently, for example by creating a
> > > temporary file each time a message is sent and then checking that the
> > > timestamp of such file is not too recent before sending a new email
> > > message).
> > >
> > > Or otherwise you can download a tiny program that I wrote
> > > (ax_emergency_listen) which is generally used to monitor APRS emergency
> > > packets and adapt it to your needs (by modifying the C source code):
> > >
> > > http://iz6rdb.trentalancia.com/en/aprs_igate.html
> > >
> > > 73,
> > >
> > > Guido IZ6RDB
>
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