Chapter 19
Profiles, Backup and Reset
#Station Profiles
Profiles store complete sets of settings so you can switch quickly between, say, Home (fixed QTH, iGate on, KISS to Direwolf), Car (SSID 9, SmartBeaconing, Bluetooth TNC) and Portable (SSID 7, topographic map). Menu → Tools → Station Profiles:
- Type a name and tap + Save to save the current settings as a profile (an existing name is replaced).
- Tap a profile to apply it. The profile's settings replace yours (settings a profile does not store, such as the symbol style and buddy filters, are left as they are), beaconing restarts as the profile requires and, if APRS-IS is connected, reconnects with the new callsign and filter.
- Tap ✕ to delete a profile.
Profiles include station, server, filter, beaconing, iGate, alert and display settings and the TNC addresses and AX.25 parameters. TNC connections are not opened automatically, and the e-mail gateway settings are not part of profiles.
#Backup and restore
The Backup section of the menu saves everything in one zip file:
- Backup All Data writes
aprs_backup_yyyy-MM-dd_HHmm.zipto the phone's Downloads folder. - Share Backup Data makes the same zip and opens the share sheet (Drive, e-mail and so on).
- Restore Backup reads a backup zip, replaces the current settings and data, and restarts the app.
A backup contains your settings (as readable JSON and as the DataStore file), the packet cache, station log, messages, weather history, watch list, QSO log, track log, bulletins, geo-fences and station profiles, and the app's preference files (including the e-mail gateway settings).
#Donate
The app is free, with no ads. Menu → Donate (also linked from About / Help) shows a photo of Tilly, dressed for Wear it Pink, and a Donate on JustGiving button that opens the fundraising page of Tracy Welch (the author's wife) for Breast Cancer Now (registered charity 1160558 England and Wales, SC045584 Scotland, 1200 Isle of Man) in your browser. Donations go to the charity; none go to the developer. The app never asks you to donate — the menu entry is the only place it appears.
#Reset to Defaults
Menu → Reset to Defaults — after two confirmations — deletes all settings, profiles, cached packets, messages, weather history, the station log, track and QSO logs, bulletins, watch list, the e-mail gateway settings, geo-fences, waypoints, saved objects, message templates, stream logs and the tile cache, and restarts the app. Crash logs are kept. Make a backup first if you might want anything back.
#Crash logs
If the app ever crashes, a report is saved (the newest five are kept). On the next start the app offers to share it. Menu → Tools → Crash Logs lists saved reports with Share and Delete buttons. Sending a crash report to the author is the fastest way to get a problem fixed.