[Xastir] question on "injecting" data into xastir

[James Washer]

Ok.. I'm constructing a string that looks like
	NV17>APXNDT,WIDE1-1:!3902.85N/11929.72W_210/025g045t053h88r000

This appears to be "parsable" as this "weather station" shows up on my xastir map.. but how do I arrange for it to be sent out on the local air, and more importantly, be sent out to the net?

 - jim

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:20:11 -0800 (PST)
"Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, James Washer wrote:
> 
> > I have access to quite a bit of local whether information and road information here in northern Nevada ( where there's not bandwidth problems on APRS (yet))
> >
> > I'd like to "inject" this data into the APRS system, but I'm not sure how. I can figure out how to make the data look like whether station reports (using perl) but can I "send" it to xastir, or have xastir read from a socket?
> >
> > Hmm, as I'm writing this, I suspect that is the answer, just write a little server in perl and setup an xastir interface to read it.
> >
> > Is that the best plan? Is there a better way? Any caveats?
> 
> That should work just fine.  It's probably how I would go about it.
> If you try to inject into port 2023, I don't think it'll end up
> getting igated to RF.
> 
> If you have Xastir connect to a Perl listening socket, then Xastir
> things it is the INET stream and can gate it to RF if you set things
> up properly (nws-stations.txt file).
> 
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