This repo contains the interface between the Silent Wings either Studio or Viewer with the OGN network.
The main task is to collect all the OGN APRS data for a defined competition area and store it on a SQLITE 3 or MySQL database.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| SWiface.py | Is the data collector. It gathers all the fixes on the competition area until the sunset |
| DBcreate.py | Script to create the SWiface database, using the DBschema.sql file |
| DBschema.sql | Database schema used in this application |
| parserfuncs.py | The set of routines to extract the main data from the APRS packets |
| SWSconfig.ini | The settings used by this application. You need to define here if your are using MySQL or not and the name of the user/password and host, This file is in /etc/local |
Originally the system was running on a Raspberry Pi 3 with a HDD SDD of 128 Gb, using Raspbian Jessie distro. The MySQL version uses a Oracle's MySQL database hosted on a WDC Mirror nas/nfs server. Nowadays the system is running in a [Intel NUC] (http://www.intel.com/nuc) under [Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (Xenial)] (http://www.ubuntu.com) and also running under a virtual machine [VirtualBox] (http://www.virtualbox.org) and [Vagrant] (https://www.vagrantup.com/) in a Windows 10 environment. See INSTALL.md for more details
For any bug please report it thru the GitHub account, open an issue and I will try to solve it.
Angel Casado
[acasado (at) acm.org](acasado (at) acm.org)