[Xastir] Re: Davis WX Station install

[Steve Friis]

Hi Bruce.

Here is where I am at. I installed mysql and the deomon runs.
I installed all of the libraries listed on the meteo web site. Still, I 
am not finding a meteo deomon or other file to run meteo, and bash says 
there isn't one to run.
I went ahead and installed db2APRS and it seems to be running.

Now I see that I am supposed to modify a file meteo.xml. I opened this 
file, but need to know how to modify this file. Do you know where I can 
see something that makes sense so I can do the mods?

Really do appreciate any help you can give.

I did go to the meteo site, but they really seem to be in hiding.


Steve/WM5Z


Bennett, Bruce wrote:
> Steve -
>
> As Curt says in the last xastir digest, db2APRS just pulls the latest weather info from the database, and that weather data gets put there by meteo.
>
> If meteo is dying, that is the key issue... 
>
> The folks at http://meteo.othello.ch/ are very good about answering questions concerning meteo issues.  In a nutshell, meteo needs a name to call your home weather station, and it needs to know what instruments are attached (temp, rain, wind, etc.) inorder to store the data away in a format db2APRS can retrieve.
> That's all in those XML files you must edit from the meteo end of things.
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> Hope this helps!
>
> Bruce Bennett KB8ROP
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> (440) 352-8600 X 3350
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Friis [mailto:wm5z at comcast.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 11:15 AM
> To: Bennett, Bruce
> Subject: Re: Davis WX Station install
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> Bennett, Bruce wrote:
>   
>> Steve -
>>
>> Well....
>>
>> I am not sure where you are at in the process, so I have to ask you the "is it plugged in?"  type questions -
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>> *	Did you read the INSTALLATION section of the README file?? Does that give you what you are looking for?
>>   
>>     
> Yes, and me being a Linux beginner of sorts is having a lot of trouble 
> understanding what the author is trying to say.
>
> What I have done so far is installed mysql, then in system, turned on 
> the daemon. I then ran the script for meteo. I did run the program that 
> checks for the visibility of the Davis unit, and it seems to be telling 
> me it is there. However meteo doesn't run so I can't get it to load, if 
> that is what I am supposed to do. Running it as a perl script told me 
> there were to many errors, and then it chocks.
>
> BTW, I did run db2APRS and it ran, I think.
>
> I also do have Xastir up and running. Been using this for quite a while. 
> I have WM5Z-1 set up as an IGate for Las Cruces. Now I am trying to get 
> set up where I have the WX data to both transmit on the APRS network, 
> and share the DATA on my local network. This way, during a mission I can 
> have the weather DATA on which ever PC station I am at.
>
> So, any help you are willing to give will be very much appreciated! 
> Especially hand holding step-by-step instructions!
>
> Steve/WM5Z
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