Change Log (changes prior to 2024)

02/03/2023
Removed support for Twitter from the script.
Updated the Wiki to reflect current changes to the script.
01/24/2023 - Minor Update
Put the flask package back in the requirements.txt file. Accidently deleted it and did not realize it. (Thanks to Russ, KV4S for catching this one.)
05/24/2022 - Minor updates - *** THIS DOES NOT REQUIRE RUNNING THE UPDATE SCRIPT ***
- Moved Wiki to Github pages using MKDocs - Link
- Minor Change to how Telegram sends messages
- Updates to README.md file
01/21/2022 - Release 01222022
- Added Support for Slack
- Added Messaging support for Mattermost, Slack
- Added Support to send to Club Servers (See above networks table for supported networks)
- Added ability to find current release number from command line
- Changed versioning system to date of release (similar to Home Assistant and other applications)
- Fixed Various bugs found
- Updates to Wiki
- Added Club Configuration and how to for server admins to allow club members to send to the server.
- Moved Change Log entres prior to 2022 to a wiki page. This is to help clean up the README File a little.
01/16/2022
- Fixed issue with weather part of the status message
01/15/2022 - Minor update
- Fixed error in message sending to Pushover
- Fixed error in packet status creation with fixed station
- Fixed error in sending messages notification via Discord
01/12/2022 - Version 6.0 Release
- Added support for Discord and Pushover for Message Notitification
- Added Support for Mattermost for Position and Weather packet data
- Split out configuration for message notification to new screen in Config Utility
- Added number of callsigns in the callsign lists on Config Utility
- Added the prevention of adding more callsigns then able to be handled by aprs.fi api
- Pull version number from database for Config Utility
05/30/2021
- Minor updates to README and the wiki.
05/19/2021 - Version 5.0 Release
- Update of APRSNotify Database to consolidate callsign lists to one table
- Redesign of an_util.py into a Flask app to allow for web browser based GUI to configure the script.
- Addition of Discord to supported networks.
- Automatically does not send a map image with WX Station Data or message notification to Telegram
- Updated Wiki with new information.
01/15/2021 - Version 4.0 Release
- Removal of APRSBot to a different project
- Moved from text files for data storage to SQLlite3 Database
- Various small bug fixes and rework of the code.
- Added: ability to send status to Mastodon
- Added: an_util.py configuration utility for interacting with the database
- Added: New wiki user guide.
- Added: Parsing of Weather Data packet from APRS.
12/11/2020 - Release 3.1 - Fixes around APRS.FI API limitations
- APRSnotify
- Updated aprsnotify.py to split position tracking and messge monitoring lists out to 2 seperate lists due to APRS.fi API restrictions
- APRSbot
- Updated aprsbot to fix APRS-IS Timeouts for sending locations and messages
- README.md
- Added limitations to the API to the APRS.fi API key section.
- Other updates and clearifications to README.md
- Configuration.md
- Split callsign lists out to position tracking list and message list. This is due to limitations on the APRS.fi API
12/09/2020 - Minor update
- Fixed Bug: fixed error in setup.py. Named the config file wrong in variable. (Found by Alex Bowman, KN4KNG)
11/15/2020 - Version 3.0 Release
- Added/New Features:
- Added a requirements.txt file to make installing libraries easier for end users
- Added checks to make sure all python libraries needed are installed already and notify the user if not and how to install
- Created and added new interactive bot functionality, APRSBot
- Updates/Changes:
- Changed from urllib to requests library to parse json. This makes it easier to use the same url for different purposes
- Removed the aprs and msg url variables and combined into aprsfi_url variable for use with new library
- Fixed bug: added srccall variable instantiation. This fixes a bug where if the srccall is not pulled properly the script bombs
- Removed using Google Geocoder for Reverse geocoding. Only using OpenStreetMaps now
- Updated README.md and Configuration.md files
08/20/2020
- Updates to the ReadMe file
07/06/2020 - Version 2.0 Release
- Added/New Features:
- Ability to choose between Metric and Imperial units
- Ability to turn off WX Information and not include it in the status message.
- Now sends notification if someone sends the user a message on APRS (requires Telegram bot for this to work).
- Sends map image of the packet location to Telegram (requires Telegram bot for this to work).
- Updates:
- Fixed: If there is not a speed entry in the JSON payload from APRS.FI, the script assumes it's a fixed station and does not include speed in the status message. In Ver. 1.0 this was a bug that would cause the script to fail if there was not a speed entry in the JSON payload.
- Updated the config file to include switches for new features.
- Updated the configuration walkthrough in this repo.
- Updated Setup.py to include switches for new features. Will also update an existing config.py file to the new version.
  - NOTE: If you are running version 1, when updating to Version 2 of the script, make sure to run setup.py to update your existing config.py file to the correct config version.
- Reworked and tighten up code in the main script
02/29/2020 - Initial Release 1.0
- Combined functionality of APRSTweet and APRSTelegram
- Added: Ability to choose to send to Twitter, Telegram or All
- Added: Ability to choose between OpenStreetMaps and Google Geocoding API for reverse geocoding of packet location
- Added: Added the hashtag #APRS to the end of the status message for Twitter
- Added: Finds the Maidenhead Grid Square based on packet location and includes it in the status message
- Added: Created setup utility to help in config file creation.
- Update: Fixed URL for aprs.fi in the status message from http:// to https://