craigerl / aprsd

Amateur radio APRS daemon which listens for messages and responds. By KM6LYW.
Apache License 2.0
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Added new time plugins #40

Closed hemna closed 3 years ago

hemna commented 3 years ago

This patch adds 2 new time plugins to allow admins to use their opencagedata APIkey or openweathermap API key to fetch the timezone from the lat/lon GPS coordinates for the callsign requesting the time.

This will enable fetching the time local to the ham radio's last beacon, and not time local to the aprsd server instance running. If the location is not found, then the timezone will default to UTC.

The 2 new plugins are

craigerl commented 3 years ago

two thumbs up... the double api keys sux, but there's really no alternative. assuming we can keep the original "free" time which is simply system time?