[Xastir-Dev] Bug report: WX format decoding error

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Sun, 25 May 2003, Henk de Groot wrote:

> We are busy with a weather station and noticed that Xastir displays funny
> values for the parameters that are left blank. The packet we receive looks
> like:
>
> PI1APA-10>APRS,PI1APA*,WIDE6-4:_05251459c204s002g002t   r000p443P445h   b
>    #110xDNed
>
> So the temperature, humiditiy and barometric pressure are not filled yet.
> As per APRS spec noe existing paramaters can be either spaces or period
> characters. Xastir however still sees it as a value. For temperature for
> example -17 degrees Centigrade is displayed and for humidity 100%...

Fixed.  Thanks for finding that!  Let us know if there are other
similar things in the code.


> I've been away for a while and just re-subscribed. I hope to pick up soon
> what the current topics are...

We're attempting to release a new "stable" release.  Should be very
soon now.

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