[Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

[vic]

I missed the start of this thread.
I've been using an Ultimeter with Xastir for many years now.
What is the problem, I maybe can help.
Regards Victor



On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:17:40 -0800 (PST)
Alex Carver <kf4lvz at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- Steve Jones <steve at mikeoxlong.net> wrote:
> > On Jan 19, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> > > work.  Some of them are commercial so you'll be
> > > paying.  I think one that's rather popular is
> > Franson
> > > GPSGate.  The Mac only has to run a program called
> > > 'socat' which can turn a network connection into a
> > > virtual serial port.
> > 
> > Looks like this is the solution for now.  Should be
> > simple to implement.
> > 
> > Weather Display does offer a server port but I can't
> > find what format  
> > the data is in and Xastir doesn't seem to like it.
> > 
> > Perhaps in the future Xastir will support the
> > wxnow.txt file.  It  
> > appears that Winaprs, Ui-view and APRS+SA all
> > support it.
> 
> I took a peek in Xastir to see how it supported
> weather stations and I see it will either support a
> serial port or a network port.  Still don't know the
> format but I'll need to poke around to figure that
> out.
> 
> Not supporting the 'wxnow.txt' file I think is
> reasonable.  The idea is that Xastir can do a lot of
> things on its own without depending too much on
> external programs (though it's certainly extensible in
> some respects).  Having Xastir directly handle reading
> from the weather station ensures that some problems
> are avoided such as reading a file that's being
> written at the same time.  It also allows for the
> display of the data as it's acquired instead of
> waiting for the file to update.
> 
> According to the help file, it currently supports a
> Radio Shack type weather station and a specific format
> of ASCII as output (presumably by a Peet Brothers
> weather station).  I don't know what the Ultimeter
> puts out for data over the serial port nor do I know
> the specifics of the two formats that Xastir
> understands.  I imagine there may be a way to get the
> Ultimeter to work in Xastir with some code changes or
> data massaging.
> 
> 
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