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 ===== Tom 2E0JJI's bpqmonweb ===== ===== 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.  
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 +{{:packet:bqmon.png?nolink&956}} 
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 +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> <code> sudo apt install -y git nginx mosquitto </code>
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 cd ~/src/bpqmonweb cd ~/src/bpqmonweb
 sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default 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 *.html /usr/share/nginx/html/
 sudo cp *.css /usr/share/nginx/html/ sudo cp *.css /usr/share/nginx/html/
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 </code> </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> <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> <code>
 echo "linbpquser:supersecretbpqmqttpassword" | sudo tee /etc/mosquitto/bpqpasswd echo "linbpquser:supersecretbpqmqttpassword" | sudo tee /etc/mosquitto/bpqpasswd
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 </code> </code>
  
-and create an access control list so publishing to the topic is password protected+and create an access control list so publishing to the publicly-available user can only read the topic
 <code> <code>
 echo 'user bpqmonweb echo 'user bpqmonweb
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 Now we need to tell LinBPQ to publish to the MQTT broker; add the following lines to your /etc/bpq32.cfg 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+Remember to use the super secret password you created above; the hostname "mosquitto" is resolved from /etc/hosts
 <code> <code>
 MQTT=1 MQTT=1
-MQTT_HOST=localhost+MQTT_HOST=mosquitto
 MQTT_PORT=1883 MQTT_PORT=1883
 MQTT_USER=linbpquser MQTT_USER=linbpquser
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 sudo systemctl restart nginx.service sudo systemctl restart nginx.service
 </code> </code>
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 +Now you can access the web server and watch the packet racket!
 +<code> http://your.pi.ip.address </code>
  
packet/bpqmonweb.1744492739.txt.gz · Last modified: 2025/04/12 21:18 by m0mzf