few more fixes

README.rst

@@ -8,46 +8,48 @@ aiscot - AIS Cursor-on-Target Gateway.
 
 
 aiscot receives AIS Sentences from an AIS Receiver, such as ais-decoder,
-converts them to Cursor-on-Target Events, and transmits the CoT Events to a destination.
+converts them to Cursor-on-Target Events, and transmits the CoT Events to a 
+destination.
 
-For use with CoT systems such as ATAK, WinTAK, etc. See https://www.civtak.org/ for more information on the TAK
-program.
+For use with CoT systems such as ATAK, WinTAK, etc. See https://www.civtak.org/ 
+for more information on the TAK program.
 
 Utilized for an open ocean boat race in the Northern Pacific Ocean, as
 described in this article: http://ampledata.org/boat_race_support.html
 
-Support AISCoT Development
+Support AISCOT Development
 ==========================
 
-AISCoT has been developed for the Disaster Response, Public Safety and Frontline community at-large. This software
-is currently provided at no-cost to our end-users. All development is self-funded and all time-spent is entirely
-voluntary. Any contribution you can make to further these software development efforts, and the mission of AISCoT
-to provide ongoing SA capabilities to our end-users, is greatly appreciated:
+AISCOT has been developed for the Disaster Response, Public Safety and 
+Frontline community at-large. This software is currently provided at no-cost to 
+our end-users. All development is self-funded and all time-spent is entirely
+voluntary. Any contribution you can make to further these software development 
+efforts, and the mission of AISCOT to provide ongoing SA capabilities to our 
+end-users, is greatly appreciated:
 
 .. image:: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/assets/img/custom_images/orange_img.png
     :target: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ampledata
-    :alt: Support AISCoT development: Buy me a coffee!
+    :alt: Support AISCOT development: Buy me a coffee!
 
 Installation
 ============
 
 
-The AIS to Cursor on Target Gateway is provided by a command-line tool
-called `aiscot`, which can be installed several ways.
+AISCOT functionality is provided by a command-line tool called `aiscot`, 
+which can be installed several ways.
 
-Installing as a Debian/Ubuntu Package::
+Installing as a Debian/Ubuntu Package [USE ME]::
 
     $ wget https://github.com/ampledata/pytak/releases/latest/download/python3-pytak_latest_all.deb
     $ sudo apt install -f ./python3-pytak_latest_all.deb
     $ wget https://github.com/ampledata/aiscot/releases/latest/download/python3-aiscot_latest_all.deb
     $ sudo apt install -f ./python3-aiscot_latest_all.deb
 
-Install from the Python Package Index::
+Install from the Python Package Index [Alternative]::
 
     $ pip install aiscot
 
-
-Install from this source tree::
+Install from this source tree [Developer]::
 
     $ git clone https://github.com/ampledata/aiscot.git
     $ cd aiscot/
@@ -57,44 +59,45 @@ Install from this source tree::
 Usage
 =====
 
-The `aiscot` daemon has several runtime arguments::
-
-    $ aiscot -h
-    usage: aiscot [-h] [-c CONFIG_FILE] [-d] [-U COT_URL] [-P AIS_PORT] [-S COT_STALE] [-F FILTER_CONFIG] [-K KNOWN_CRAFT]
+AISCOT can be configured with a INI-style configuration file, or using 
+environmental variables.
 
-    optional arguments:
+Command-line options:
       -h, --help            show this help message and exit
       -c CONFIG_FILE, --CONFIG_FILE CONFIG_FILE
-      -d, --DEBUG           Enable DEBUG logging
-      -U COT_URL, --COT_URL COT_URL
-                            URL to CoT Destination. Must be a URL, e.g. tcp:1.2.3.4:1234 or tls:...:1234, etc.
-      -P AIS_PORT, --AIS_PORT AIS_PORT
-                            AIS UDP Listen Port.
-      -S COT_STALE, --COT_STALE COT_STALE
-                            CoT Stale period, in seconds
-      -F FILTER_CONFIG, --FILTER_CONFIG FILTER_CONFIG
-                            FILTER_CONFIG
-      -K KNOWN_CRAFT, --KNOWN_CRAFT KNOWN_CRAFT
-                            KNOWN_CRAFT
-
-See example-config.ini for example configuration.
+
+Configuration options:
+    COT_URL : `str`
+        URL to CoT Destination. Must be a URL, e.g. tcp:1.2.3.4:1234 or tls:...:1234, etc.
+    AIS_PORT : `int`
+        AIS UDP Listen Port.
+    COT_STALE : `int`
+        CoT Stale period, in seconds. Default 3600 seconds (1 hour).
+    KNOWN_CRAFT : `str`
+        Known Craft hints file. CSV file containing callsign/marker hints.
+
+See example-config.ini in the source tree for example configuration.
+
 
 Source
 ======
 Github: https://github.com/ampledata/aiscot
 
+
 Author
 ======
 Greg Albrecht W2GMD [email protected]
 
 http://ampledata.org/
 
+
 Copyright
 =========
 
-* aiscot Copyright 2021 Greg Albrecht, Inc.
+* aiscot Copyright 2022 Greg Albrecht
 * pyAISm.py Copyright 2016 Pierre Payen
 
+
 License
 =======
 

aiscot/classes.py

@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ async def _get_aishub_feed(self):
 
     async def run(self, number_of_iterations=-1):
         """Runs this Thread, reads AIS & outputs CoT."""
-        self._logger.info("Running AISWorker")
+        self._logger.info("Running AISWorker, COT_URL=%s", self.config.get("COT_URL"))
         loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
 
         if self.aishub_url:

aiscot/commands.py

@@ -68,9 +68,13 @@ def cli():
     env_vars = os.environ
     env_vars["COT_URL"] = env_vars.get("COT_URL", aiscot.DEFAULT_COT_URL)
     config = configparser.ConfigParser(env_vars)
+
     config_file = cli_args.get("CONFIG_FILE")
-    logging.info("Reading configuration from %s", config_file)
-    config.read(config_file)
+    if os.path.exists(config_file):
+        logging.info("Reading configuration from %s", config_file)
+        config.read(config_file)
+    else:
+        config.add_section("aiscot")
 
     if sys.version_info[:2] >= (3, 7):
         asyncio.run(main(config), debug=config["aiscot"].getboolean("DEBUG"))