[Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Rick Green wrote:

> I'm running a Peet Ultimeter 500, which seems to output the same data
> structures as the ultimeter 2000, but with all the 'missing' sensors
> zeroed out.  I wish there was a way I could configure xastir to ignore
> some fields, since it's reporting that it never rains here, rather than
> simply not reporting rain as it should.  And I don't have a baro sensor,
> but it's reporting some strange bogus values...

Talk to us some more about this.  I don't know much about the Peet
series.  We could do something about the above problem.


> I haven't found anything in the code that treats a 'networked' weather
> station any differently than a serial-connected one, so I'm guessing
> that the 'networked' wx station is simply a serial wx station plugged into
> a 'serial server' or a 'terminal server', so that if you were to telnet to
> the server port, you'd see the same data stream as if you ran minicom on
> the serial-connected wx station.

Nope.  Unfortunately.  In this case it connects to the One Wire
Weather daemon or the wx200d daemon only.

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