[Xastir] weather setup

[James Jolin]

Curt Mills wrote:

>On Sun, 30 May 2004, James Jolin wrote:
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>>The setup for the usb/serial adapter was almost too easy.  Tnx. Now, I
>>need to know how to get a Davis VP weather station with the datalogger
>>setup.  The datalogger is on com 1 at 19200.  Does xastir look for this
>>or do I need another program?
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>We don't support Davis directly yet.  The code has yet to be
>written.  We only support Davis via a separate application that puts
>Davis data into a MySQL database, then Xastir queries the database
>for the data.  At least I think that's how it works.
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>See the xastir/src/Davis directory for instructions on how to do
>that.  I don't think very many people are running that yet, perhaps
>2 to 4.
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>If you'd like to help out by collecting the docs for Davis protocol
>and then perhaps sending patches that add Davis protocol decoding
>into Xastir directly, I'd be more than happy to help.  I think just
>collecting the links to the docs would help, if you can convince one
>of the twelve developers (or advanced users that like to code) to
>implement support.
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I'll see what I can find out,  but I don't have a /xastir/src/Davis 
directory on my hard drive.  That's where it is isn't it?
Jim