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Auto-status

Auto-status transmits an APRS status from your callsign on a timer. It is for operators with a verified callsign who want their station's status text on the air at a steady interval.

What it does

/autostatus sets the interval and the text. On the app's minute tick the tool counts down and, when the interval has passed, asks the app to transmit >text, an APRS status. The tool log says auto-status sent, or auto-status held (TX gate closed) when the app held it.

Use it

Command Does
/autostatus <minutes> <text> Starts: every <minutes>, 10 or more, the status <text> (APRScaching when left out, cut to 62 characters). Without a number first it answers with its usage and transmits nothing
/autostatus off Stops, in any letter case

For example, /autostatus 30 QRV on 144.800, 73 answers Auto-status every 30 min: "QRV on 144.800, 73" (TX-gated).

What it transmits

  • One APRS status, >text, from your callsign, every interval you set. A tool transmits status and messages only; the app refuses anything else.
  • Only through your gate. The app sends it only while your callsign is control-verified and a radio is connected in Settings → My radio with your transmit consent for this tab. Without them the status is held.
  • Within the tool's budget. Each tool may transmit once a minute and six times an hour. The budget lasts for the tab: switching the tool off and on, or reloading the page, does not refill it.
  • Only when you ask. It transmits only after /autostatus, and stops on /autostatus off, when you switch the tool off, or when the tab closes.

Every status shows in Recent transmissions under the tool's title.

Permissions

Permission Why
command Registers /autostatus
event Counts the minute tick
tx Transmits the status; the app gates it on the verified callsign and the tab's consent

Version and tool API
Manifest name auto-status
Version 1.1.1
Tool API 1.0, the minimum it needs
Author OE8APR
Shows on terminal
Commands The operator's alone
Licence MIT
In the project registry Listed, as version 1.1.1
Source tools/auto-status/

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