Status Updater

Caveats

There are some caveats with this:

• It does not do geo reverse lookups yet so the status will just contain the raw coordinates for now...

• It only supports APRS at the moment but the idea is to add Wires-X and others too.

• There's only basic throttling per user - if someone uses their callsign for more than one device at a time, there might be some confusing status :)

• It requires the Slack Real Name or Display Name to contain the callsign(s).

• The APRS filter (if left empty) is the list of callsigns found in Slack - the filter is only populated once though and changes will not be reflected. If this is a problem, consider specifying -aprs_filter directly.

• Obviously only run one instance in the same workspace at the time...

Installing

    $ go get -u github.com/hb9tf/statusupdater

AuthN/AuthZ

Go to https://api.slack.com/apps and create a new app.

Give it the following permissions:

• Admin to modify any user's profile: admin
• Send messages as StatusUpdater: chat:write:bot
• Access your workspace's profile information: users:read
• Access user's profile and workspace profile fields: users.profile:read
• Modify user's profile: users.profile:write

Copy the OAuth access token.

Install the app to your workspace (as prompted by slack).

Running

Run in dry-mode first to make sure it behaves nicely:

$ go run src/github.com/hb9tf/statusupdater/updater.go \
  -aprs_callsign=<Your Callsign> \
  -slack_token=<OAuth token> \
  -dry \
  >&2

The real deal:

$ go run src/github.com/hb9tf/statusupdater/updater.go \
  -aprs_callsign=<Your Callsign> \
  -slack_token=<OAuth token> \
  >&2

If you'd like it to also send the status updates to a slack channel of choice:

$ go run src/github.com/hb9tf/statusupdater/updater.go \
  -aprs_callsign=<Your Callsign> \
  -slack_token=<OAuth token> \
  -slack_channel=<Slack Channel ID> \
  >&2

See other flags directly in updater.go - not all of them are mentioned here.

Docker

Build Docker image:

docker build -t updater .

Run Docker image:

docker run --rm -e "TOKEN=<OAuth token>" -e "CALLSIGN=<Your Callsign>" -e "SLACKCHANNEL=<slack channel to update>" updater