AprsWeather

Weather maps backed by data from the Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS).

Deployed at: hamwx.bielstein.dev

Running Locally

Before running, you'll have to set a value for the APRS_IS_CALLSIGN environment variable. This value will be used for APRS-IS login.

Docker Compose

The full application can be run locally using docker compose up -d --build. Once that is complete, load http://localhost:80 in your browser or use http://localhost:5148/WeatherReports to test the backend.

Once finished, it can be shut down with docker compose down.

Note: If running the client docker container directly, please add --build-arg ENVIRONMENT=Development to avoid including page view analytics code.

Local/Debug

To run without docker containers, which is helpful for debugging or quickly iterating on UI changes, run the following steps:

1. Find and replace %ENVIRONMENT% with Development in src/AprsWeatherClient/wwwroot/index.html. This uses the development appsettings file when running the client. Careful not to commit this change in git.
2. Launch the frontend and backend by opening a terminal for each the server and client, changing to each directory (i.e. src/AprsWeatherClient and src/AprsWeatherServer), and executing dotnet run or dotnet watch, as desired.
3. Point your browser to http://localhost:5184/

Deploying

This application deploys with DigitalOcean App Platform. It has full continuous deployment for any code pushed/merged to main.

To bootstrap the deployment, use the doctl command line to deploy the application. Once deployed, take the application ID and save it as a GitHub Actions secret so it can be used for future updates and deployments.

APRS Reports and Gridsquare Locations

Good resources for finding and viewing APRS reports and gridsquare locations (good for debugging):

• Google Maps APRS (APRS.fi)
• Amateur Radio Ham Radio Maidenhead Grid Square Locator Map
• GridMapper by QRZ Ham Radio

Analytics Reporting

Visitor analytics reporting is handled by Plausible.io. A script is added during deployment to report analytics data to them. When forking this repository, please remove or update src/AprsWeatherClient/deploy/analytics.sh.