meshtastic-mqtt-aprs

A Python script to translate Meshtastic MQTT packets into a plain format that other systems can easily understand. Currently takes position data and submits it to a private MQTT broker and then to private APRS-IS instance, also publishes user info packets, battery levels and environmental plugin temperatures and humidity readings to mqtt as raw values.

APRS Callsign are obtained from Short Name, dash '-' and last four hex digits of node id.

DO NOT USE WITH aprs.fi, as it is prohibited to push non HAM data to it!

Use meshtastic-mqtt-aprs --help to see the options.

Installation

Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/erstec/meshtastic-mqtt-aprs.git cd meshtastic-mqtt-aprs

Install to your systen with pip sudo apt instal python3-pip pip --version sudo pip install .

Run meshtastic-mqtt-aprs --help and see the options required to run the script. Ex. meshtastic-mqtt-aprs --mqttBroker ADDRESSOFBROKER APRSCALL APRSHOST APRSPASS

There are some comments in meshtastic-mqtt.py that detail the tweaks needed to make this run under AppDaemon in Home Assistant.

Running as a service

Edit service file according to your needs and copy it to systemd folder:

sudo cp etc/systemd/system/meshtastic-mqtt-aprs.service /etc/systemd/system/meshtastic-mqtt-aprs.service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

sudo systemctl enable meshastic-mqtt-aprs

sudo systemctl start meshastic-mqtt-aprs

You can then check that your service is running by using the command:

sudo systemctl | grep running

sudo systemctl status meshtastic-mqtt-aprs

Logs:

journalctl -f -u meshtastic-mqtt-aprs

Running as a Docker container

Create volume for persistent storage:

docker volume create meshtastic-db

Build the image:

docker build -t meshtastic-mqtt-aprs .

Run the container, passing all required environment variables:

docker run -d --restart unless-stopped --mount type=volume,src=meshtastic-db,target=/opt/meshtastic-mqtt-aprs --env MSH_MQTT_SERVER=<mqtt server ip/host> --env MSH_MQTT_USER=<mqtt username> --env MSH_MQTT_PSW=<mqtt password> --env MSH_APRS_PORT=<aprs-is port> --env MSH_APRS_CALL=<aprs-is callsign> --env MSH_APRS_HOST=<aprs-is host/ip> --env MSH_APRS_PASS=<aprs-is pass> --env TELEGRAM_TOKEN= --env TELEGRAM_CHATID= meshtastic-mqtt-aprs

Copyright notice

Based on https://github.com/joshpirihi/meshtastic-mqtt