APRS PropView v1.5.7.0

APRS PropView v1.5.7.0

Released: June 5, 2026

Highlights

• Expanded Home Assistant MQTT Discovery with binary sensors for APRS-IS/RF connectivity, band openings, Sporadic-E possibility, message waiting, weather warning state, and interface-down alerts.
• Added retained MQTT status snapshots on aprs/propview/ha/status so Home Assistant and Node-RED can track station counts, packet age, connectivity, alerts, and message state without scraping the web UI.
• Added watched callsign MQTT support. Configure callsigns in Settings or [mqtt].watched_callsigns; PropView publishes retained presence, last-heard, distance, path, and comment state for each watched station.
• Added typed MQTT event topics such as aprs/propview/event/message_received while keeping the existing aggregate event topics for compatibility.
• Improved Sporadic-E analytics with selectable 6-hour, 24-hour, and 7-day windows, RF station diagnostics, strongest analyzed stations, qualifying-distance counts, candidate score gates, and near-miss reporting.
• Added a station-symbol size control to the map toolbar and persisted the choice in browser UI state.
• Added a richer weather analytics dashboard with current conditions, gauges, records, charts, forecast tiles, and map context.
• Added an X button to each severe weather alert banner so users can clear individual alerts from the current view.
• Hardened Windows setup upgrades by stopping a still-running APRSPropView.exe before file replacement to avoid access-denied installer updates.
• Refreshed dashboard static asset cache keys so overwritten same-version installers load the new weather dashboard and station symbol-size controls.
• Hardened first-heard logging so each station/source pair is logged once, survives station cleanup, and does not repeatedly trigger first-heard announcements.
• Polished map callsign search with collapsed default state, Enter-to-search, and Esc/collapse handling.

Upgrade Notes

• Windows users can install fresh with APRSPropViewSetup-1.5.7.0.exe or update from the About tab when the setup asset is attached to the GitHub release.
• Linux and Raspberry Pi installs should pull the updated repository, rerun scripts/install_linux.sh, and restart the systemd service.
• macOS users can update source installs directly or rebuild the local unsigned .app with build_macos.py.
• Existing MQTT topics remain available. Home Assistant users should keep the same MQTT Device ID, enable Discovery, and allow the new binary sensors and watched callsign entities to appear.
• Existing databases are migrated automatically to deduplicate first_heard_log by callsign/source before creating the new uniqueness index.

Verification

• APRS compliance and integration test suite.
• Python syntax checks for release-touched modules.
• Windows PyInstaller one-file executable build.
• Windows Inno Setup installer build.