[Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

[Steve Jones]

On Jan 19, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Alex Carver wrote:

>  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).

I'm not sure how to respond to this.

I don't need Xastir to interface to my weather station.  I've already  
got a program that handles the data from my weather station quite  
well.  It puts it in a nice format for uploading to my webpage,  
generates weather report emails every 60 minutes from 8am to 10pm and  
alerts me when certain limits are exceeded.  It can also generate a  
simple text file every so many minutes that many APRS clients can read.

> 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.

Over all the years I've run Ui-View and Weather Display, that's never  
been an issue.

> It also allows for the display of the data as it's acquired instead of
> waiting for the file to update.

That would be great if I was continuously transmitting but I'm not.   
I'm also worried about Xastir being tied down with a constant stream  
of traffic from the internet as well as a weather station.  I guess  
I'll have to see how badly it lags when I start feeding it the stream  
using GPSGate.

Another solution is to see what's involved in adding the code in  
myself.  Could be an interesting project.

Steve