[Xastir-dev] WX input addtion?

[Bennett, Bruce]

Hmmm.... 

I looked over the [aprsd] docs and it looks intriguing - but several key
questions come to mind: 

It looks like I'd have to apply position information and packet routing -
something I was hoping to use xastir to coordinate... unless you have a
different slant than treating the wx packet as digipeated data?

I had thought of similar approaches, feeding AX25 the packets (I do have
AX25-kernel support built in) with the same reservations. I have not
explored how xastir would treat such data, but I assume it would not
recognise the weather data as being it's own, rather as a "nearby" station.

Have you done something similar?  How did it function exactly?

Thanks for bringing up the idea, Brian!  I am going to investigate further,
since I haven't played with aprsd.  I'll set it up on my other Linux server
and see what it can do...

Bruce Bennett
BBennett at Spang.COM
(440) 352-8600 X 3350
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian D Heaton [mailto:bdheaton at c4i2.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 7:11 PM
To: Bennett, Bruce
Cc: xastir-dev at xastir.org
Subject: Re: [Xastir-dev] WX input addtion?


Bruce,

	If you run a local copy of aprsd on the machine you can input the
weather packet via the UDP port.  That would both gate the packet to the
APRS-IS stream and to the locally connected Xastir client.

			73/N5VFF (Brian)


On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 08:00, Bennett, Bruce wrote:
> Gentlemen -
> 
> My home weather station is a Davis Weather Wizard III, which is not
> currently supported by xastir. For all of us Davis Instruments and
> Linux users, there is a nice weather recording package called “meteo”,
> current version meteo-0.9.4, see <http://meteo.othello.ch> that
> utilizes mysql for data storage.
> 
> Being the programming type that I am, I have written a small utility
> that produces an APRS Specification 1.01 “position-less” format
> weather string containing the most recent meteo data and offers it up
> on a TCP port (much like wx200d - from which much was borrowed, ref
> <http://wx200d.sourceforge.net/> ). (It’s not yet ready for prime
> time, though - early Alpha testing - check back if interested)
> 
> My thought was that the APRS Specification format, as an input to
> xastir, might be a nice additional format for xastir to recognize, for
> use as a generalized weather-daemon connection…  Many WX station
> types, one protocol type?
> 
> Does this idea appeal to the general xastir community, and the xastir
> developers in specific?  I’d even be willing to modify wx200d to
> produce data in the same format, if someone else with a Radio Shack WX
> station could test it.
> 
> 
> Bruce Bennett
> BBennett at Spang.COM
> (440) 352-8600 X 3350
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