Spotbot is an application to convert HamAlert alerts from POTA or SOTA in to a message format that can be forwarded on to a Discord channel webhook.

HamAlert Configuration

Discord Message

Spotbot stores the messageId of the last message posted for each callsign. If that message was posted recently (as defined by LOOKBACK_SECONDS), it will update the message instead of posting a new one to reduce the chatter of the bot.

You can find a live, working version of this bot in the Cascadia Radio Discord server, in the #spots channel. Join us!

The app expects the following environment variables:

• TARGET_URL - the webhook URL from the target Discord channel.
• LOOKBACK_SECONDS - the number of seconds to look backwards for previous messages to update instead of posting a new one
• SECRET_ENDPOINT - the name of the endpoint, kept secret to prevent abuse / unwanted messages
• ALLOWED_IPS - (optional) comma-separated list of IP addresses allowed to access the secret endpoint. If not set, all IPs are allowed. Example: 192.168.1.1,10.0.0.5
• MYSQL_HOST
• MYSQL_USER
• MYSQL_PASSWORD
• MYSQL_DATABASE

• Some basic tests run in tests.py on the creation of a new PR
• To deploy, login to PythonAnywhere and pull the latst from main