Category: Packet
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Checking the weather using packet radio
After spending some time playing around with BPQ, I have learned how powerful its applications interface is. I first followed a guide to create a system info application, allowing for checking system resources from afar. Today, I set out to create a weather application that allows the user to check their local (to the zip…
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Monitoring System Stats via BPQ & Python
While setting up my BPQ node, I came across another node that hosted an interesting application: System Info. This application displayed stats such as CPU usage, system uptime, available memory, etc. I think this would be interesting for remote management, so I decided to implement it. I found this guide, which was very helpful, but…
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The KD5LPB-7 2m BPQ32 Node
Over the past month, I’ve been at work setting up a 2 meter BQP node here in Aurora, Colorado. I chose BPQ32 as it is full of features, is well supported, and is widely used. The nodes broadcast feature is attractive to me, as I think it would be cool to have an automatically generated…