Pi-Spotter

Developed by KF5IEU

Welcome to Pi-Spotter! This is meant to be an additional dashboard to Pi-Star to see live tracking of your hotspot callers that shows their callsign, country, city, and state! Get started by following the instructions below.

Prerequisites

To install Pi-Spotter, you will need an internet connection, and an SSH shell to your pi-star. Instructions on how to get an SSH Shell are below!

SSH Into Pi-Star

You will need your pi-star hotspot on the same network as your machine that you intend to ssh from.

Windows

If you are using Windows I suggest watching this video for instructions!

Mac / Linux

If you are using a Mac or Linux follow the below instructions!

To SSH into your pi-star, first get the IP Address of the device. It will usually be something like 192.168.0.100.

Once you have the IP Address, open the Terminal application, and type the following command:

# Replace <ipaddress> with the address found above!
ssh pi-star@<ipaddress>

# If your IP Address is 192.168.0.100, you would use the following command
ssh pi-star@192.168.0.100

Press Enter. It may ask you to confirm the identity of the device.

Type the letter Y, then hit enter.

Now it will ask you for a password. The default password is raspberry - Hit enter again.

Boom. You should be logged into your Pi-Star through SSH! Continue on to the Install command below!

Install Command

Simply copy this command into your terminal window, and hit enter. The install will only take a second, and will let you know when it's done! When complete, the installer will tell you the URL to Access **Pi-Spotter* at. It will usually be http://ipaddress/pispotter

wget -qO - github.com/teevans/pi-spotter/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sudo sh

Uninstall

To uninstall Pi-Spotter simply execute the following command from an SSH session on your hotspot!

wget -qO - github.com/teevans/pi-spotter/releases/latest/download/uninstall.sh | sudo sh

Under the Hood

This is a React single page app that get installed into the Nginx configuration that Pi-Star uses out of the box! All of the compiled files are loaded into the /var/html/pispotter directory to be served. The installer also takes care of loading in an nginx configuration file to serve the pages and static files properly.