[Xastir] [aprssig] Fwd: wx200d (fwd)

[Curt, WE7U]

The below forward is FYI.

I'd be interested in hearing if Xastir does the proper thing with
negative temps for those using the wx200 daemon.  This is a good
time of year to check your negative temps against findu or
AprsWorld.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ryan Tourge <k2rrt.lists at gmail.com>
Date: Jan 26, 2007 9:23 PM
Subject: wx200d
To: APRS SIG <aprssig at lists.tapr.org.>


I found a slight bug in the APRS output of the linux wx200d weather application.

As it comes when the temp dips below zero it outputs the temperature
parameter as "-7". This may have caused the temperature not to decode
properly in some applications. I found this using FINDU but it may be
the case with others as well...

so here was a quick fix:

on line 270 of wx200.c change:

       sprintf(tmpbuf,"%+02.0f",unit_temp(wx.temp.out.n,1));
to
       sprintf(tmpbuf,"%+03.0f",unit_temp(wx.temp.out.n,1));

then:
make
make install

This will out put the temp as "-07" and seems to make FINDU happy.

Just for the record I'm not picking on findu It's just the only app I
had access to at that moment.

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Ryan Tourge - K2RRT


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Ryan Tourge - K2RRT