NeoAPRS

A modern, easy-to-use APRS client for a radio with a TNC.

The project page is at https://oh2gba.github.io/neoaprs/ — screenshots, downloads and what NeoAPRS does.

NeoAPRS is a map, your messages and your beacon in one page. It runs as an app on Windows and Linux, or as a service on a Raspberry Pi that you open from your laptop or phone. It is RF first: it talks to your radio or TNC, and an optional tickbox shows the stations of APRS-IS round you on the map. Nothing from the internet is ever sent on the air.

Download

• Windows: NeoAPRS-Setup.exe (no administrator rights needed; SmartScreen may warn about an unsigned installer: More info, Run anyway)
• Linux: NeoAPRS-x86_64.AppImage: make it executable and run it
• Raspberry Pi, Debian, Ubuntu: the .deb of the latest release: sudo apt install ./neoaprs_<version>_arm64.deb, then neoaprs service install --linger
• Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi: curl -LsSf https://github.com/oh2gba/neoaprs/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh

Then run neoaprs open, or open http://127.0.0.1:7303/; a setup guide of four steps (call, position, symbol, radio) starts. Nothing is transmitted until a call is set. No radio yet? The radio type Dummy makes up traffic to try NeoAPRS with. Installing, updating and removing: the manual.

What it does

• a map of the stations you hear, with trails, weather graphs and a Nearby tab for digipeaters, iGates and voice frequencies in range
• messages with acks and retries, bulletins, and email through the APRS gateway
• your beacon: fixed, or following a GPS with SmartBeaconing for a car, a bicycle, a walker or a boat
• objects and items of your own, on the map and on the air
• an optional fill-in digipeater, and stations from the internet on the map
• a page for a phone, a tablet and a desktop, in English, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese
• alerts for a new message, and access from your home network with an access key

Radios

Kenwood TH-D7, TM-D700, TM-D710, TH-D72, TH-D74 and TH-D75, Mobilinkd, NinoTNC, TNC-Pi, Kantronics KPC-3+, Bluetooth radios such as the BTech UV-PRO, and any radio with a sound-card interface through Direwolf; a GPS through gpsd or a serial port. The radio guide has the setup of each and says which are tried on the air.

Getting help

In the page, Settings, Help, Download logs makes one file to e-mail to [email protected] with a few words on what happened (Getting help). Nothing is sent by itself.

Feedback and ideas: GitHub issues (preferred) or [email protected].

More

Manual · Radios · Changelog · Development · Roadmap · Issues

Licence: GPL-3.0-or-later (LICENSE). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors via Protomaps; APRS symbols by Heikki Hannikainen OH7LZB; device names from the APRS device identification list by Hessu, OH7LZB (CC BY-SA 2.0).