mckero
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34 commits since 4.6.0, 56 files, +4902/-365. Three areas that were diagnosed as broken and rebuilt: APRS beaconing, WaveLog upload, and the satellite data source URLs. The one that mattered most: 4.6.0 reported every APRS beacon as sent regardless of outcome, so nobody running it could tell whether their station had ever reached the network. That is fixed, and the login and refusal paths are verified against live APRS-IS servers - the old login line was malformed and euro.aprs2.net, noam.aprs2.net and rotate.aprs2.net all refused it, which the app read as success. WaveLog uploads now read the reply body. A rejected contact used to be marked uploaded and dropped from the queue, so the contact was lost while the screen said it went up. In-app release notes updated in the five locales that carry them. Turkish, Indonesian and Malay get the English text rather than the previous version's notes, which would otherwise describe the wrong release. What is NOT verified: no packet from this build has been confirmed on aprs.fi, and nothing about the foreground service, the Doze-proof alarm or any composable has been executed on a device - there is no emulator here. The transmit path needs a licensed callsign and a real passcode. A six-step checklist for that is in .hermes/plans/2026-08-26_aprs-verification-checklist.md.
Look4Sat: Satellite tracker
Radio satellite tracker and pass predictor for Android, inspired by Gpredict
Track satellite passes with ease!
Thanks to Celestrak and SatNOGS you have access to over 9000 active satellites.
You can search the entire database by NORAD Catalog Number or the satellite's name.
Orbital positions and passes are calculated relative to your location.
To get reliable data make sure to set the station position via the app Settings.
The application is built using Kotlin, Coroutines, Jetpack Compose and Navigation.
It is now and always will be completely ad-free and open-source.
Main features:
- Predicting satellite positions and passes for up to 10 days
- Showing the list of currently active and upcoming satellite passes
- Showing the active pass progress, polar trajectory and transceivers info
- Showing the satellite positional data, footprint and ground track on the map
- Custom TLE satellite data import is available via Three Line Element .txt files
- Offline first: calculations are made offline. Weekly TLE data update is recommended.
License
The Look4Sat application code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
The CW decoder in feature/cw bundles the DeepCW
neural decoding model, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only
(AGPL-3.0-only). Because the combined work incorporates an AGPL-3.0 component, the
combined work is distributed under the
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 — GPL-3.0 Section 13 permits the
combination, and AGPL-3.0 Section 13 applies to the combined work as a whole.
Model provenance and attribution are documented in
feature/cw/licenses/NOTICE.md; the original GPL-3.0
text is preserved at feature/cw/licenses/Look4Sat-GPL-3.0.txt. The CW model runs
locally on-device and does not provide services over a network.