CloudPusher - logging WSJT-X to Cloudlog - M0YNG.uk

Created 2020-05-17

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Amateur Radio

Recently I managed to have some success with FT8, which was great! But I didn't want to have to log contact manually. I've also started using CloudLog[1] (which you can view at https://log.m0yng.uk[2])

1: https://www.magicbug.co.uk/cloudlog/

2: https://log.m0yng.uk

I looked around and didn't find anything simple and native for Linux to do this log uploading (I'm sure there are things I didn't find, but 🤷)

Previously I've (ab)used a handy Python script by Giampaolo Rodola' which find and watches log files watch_log.py[3], and I knew that WSJT-X generates an adi file, and that CloudLog had an API that can accept adi lines.

3: https://gist.github.com/albsen/3903930

CloudPusher Code

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Imports for stuff
import configparser
import watch_log
import requests

# read in the config
config = configparser.ConfigParser()
config.read('config.ini')

# Some fixed common things
qsourl = '/index.php/api/qso'

# What to do when we find a new contact
def pushContact(filename, lines):
    for line in lines:
        r = requests.post(
            config['cloudlog']['host'] + qsourl,
            json={"key": config['cloudlog']['key'],
                  "type": "adif",
                  "string": line
                  }
        )
        if r.status_code == 201:
            print('😃 log created!')
        else:
            print('😟 Something went wrong')
            print(r.text)

# tell it what to watch
l = watch_log.LogWatcher(config['cloudlog']['filepath'], pushContact)
# start the watching
l.loop()

I've used a config file, which looks like this

[cloudlog]
host = https://yourlog.server
key = yourkeyhere
filepath = /home/pi/.local/share/WSJT-X

I needed to change line 29 of `watch_log.py` to monitor `.adi` files, not just `.log`:

def __init__(self, folder, callback, extensions=["log"], tail_lines=0):

def __init__(self, folder, callback, extensions=["adi"], tail_lines=0):

Conclusion

I'm sure there are better ways of doing this, but it was quick, simple, and it works.

Sure, I have to remember to start the script first, but it's not too big of an issue, and I *could* make it start automatically on boot...

It would be nice to show on the CLI some info about the contact, e.g. `😃 contact with G5BK created!`, but that would require parsing the adi text and it's just not that important to me (for now.)

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