#networking #reverse #real-time #cli #beacon #feed #terminal

app rbn

A small CLI interface to the Reverse Beacon Network, displaying all global network spots in real time as a formatted feed in a terminal

5 releases

0.1.4 May 1, 2021
0.1.3 Apr 28, 2021
0.1.2 Jan 31, 2021
0.1.1 Jan 31, 2021
0.1.0 Jan 31, 2021

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Reverse Beacon Network CLI

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rbn is a small CLI interface to the Reverse Beacon Network, displaying all global network spots in real time as a formatted feed in a terminal.

Installation

From Source

git clone https://github.com/ewpratten/rbn
cd rbn
cargo install --path .

From Crates.io

cargo install rbn

Pre-built Binaries

I share a few pre-built binaries for systems I use on the releases page.

Usage

# rbn --help

Reverse Beacon Network Client 0.1.2
Evan Pratten <ewpratten@gmail.com>

USAGE:
    rbn [OPTIONS] --callsign <callsign>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -b, --band <band>...             Band name to filter by. This can be used multiple times to filter multiple bands
    -c, --callsign <callsign>        Your callsign (used to authenticate with RBN)
    -f, --filtercall <filtercall>    Callsign to filter by

Screenshots

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Dependencies

~5–15MB
~170K SLoC