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--- packet:bpqmonweb [2025/04/12 21:10] – m0mzf
+++ packet:bpqmonweb [2025/04/13 00:13] (current) – m0mzf
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 ===== Tom 2E0JJI's bpqmonweb =====
-Tom has created a superb web application to monitor a BPQ or Xrouter node. This involves installing a web server, installing an MQTT broker, and configuring the whole lot. This is on a Pi running Raspberry Pi OS 12 - let's start with installing the required packages:
+Tom has created a superb web application to monitor a BPQ or Xrouter node.
+{{:packet:bqmon.png?nolink&956}}
+This involves installing a web server & MQTT broker and configuring the whole lot. This is on a Pi running Raspberry Pi OS 12 - let's start with installing the required packages:
 <code> sudo apt install -y git nginx mosquitto </code>
-Grab Tom's repository and copying everything into the web server
+Grab Tom's repository and copy everything into the web server
 <code>
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 cd ~/src/bpqmonweb
 sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
-sudo cp nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/bpqmonweb
+sudo cp nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/bpqmonweb
 sudo cp *.html /usr/share/nginx/html/
 sudo cp *.css /usr/share/nginx/html/
 sudo cp *.js /usr/share/nginx/html/
-sudo systemctl restart nginx.service
 </code>
-Now we need to add an entry to our hosts file so the nginx proxy knows where mosquitto is located on the network
+Now we need to add an entry to our hosts file so the nginx proxy knows where mosquitto is located on the network; this is already set in the nginx config so it's cleaner to add it here rather than edit the files pulled from git
 <code>echo "127.0.0.1	mosquitto" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts</code>
-Then, we need to set up mosquitto users - replace the supersecretbpqmqttpassword with something "secret" so other people can't publish to your MQTT server!
+Then we need to set up mosquitto users - replace the supersecretbpqmqttpassword with something "secret" so other people can't publish to your MQTT server!
 <code>
-echo "bpquser:supersecretbpqmqttpassword" | sudo tee /etc/mosquitto/bpqpasswd
+echo "linbpquser:supersecretbpqmqttpassword" | sudo tee /etc/mosquitto/bpqpasswd
 echo "bpqmonweb:bpqmonweb" | sudo tee /etc/mosquitto/webpasswd
 sudo mosquitto_passwd -U /etc/mosquitto/bpqpasswd
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 acl_file /etc/mosquitto/webaclfile
 allow_anonymous false' | sudo tee /etc/mosquitto/conf.d/bpqmonweb.conf
+</code>
+and create an access control list so publishing to the publicly-available user can only read the topic
+<code>
+echo 'user bpqmonweb
+topic read PACKETNODE/ax25/trace/bpqformat/#' | sudo tee /etc/mosquitto/webaclfile
+</code>
+Now we need to tell LinBPQ to publish to the MQTT broker; add the following lines to your /etc/bpq32.cfg
+Remember to use the super secret password you created above; the hostname "mosquitto" is resolved from /etc/hosts
+<code>
+MQTT=1
+MQTT_HOST=mosquitto
+MQTT_PORT=1883
+MQTT_USER=linbpquser
+MQTT_PASS=supersecretbpqmqttpassword
+</code>
+then restart all the services we've tinkered with
+<code>
 sudo systemctl restart mosquitto.service
+sudo systemctl restart linbpq.service
+sudo systemctl restart nginx.service
 </code>
+Now you can access the web server and watch the packet racket!
+<code> http://your.pi.ip.address </code>