[Xastir] Davis Weather APRS Data Streamer

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:41:31AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <k5mts.xastir at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm new to Xastir and love the software, and I have a question.
> 
> With the new APRS Data logger for the Davis weather stations it is no longer
> necessary to poll the station for data.  Additionally the unit can stream
> data in APRS packet format as fast as every minute.  The data is formatted
> as such:
> 
> @151632z3500.03N/10620.88W_267/002g007t070r000p016P000h17b10219.DsVP
> 
> Is there any chance of implementing this in Xastir?  It would certainly take
> the headache out of trying to interface my station with MySql and the like.
> Thanks in advance,

Been talking to Mike about this one.  It should be a pretty simple hack
to add this as an interface --- the format is exactly an APRS WX posit missing
only the call sign and path.  It should be pretty easy to do.

Another option, of course, could be to make a trivial (trivial) external hack
that does nothing more than provide a TCP port to connect to, then strip off 
all the stuff to the left of the wind direction, and then serve it up to all 
connected  clients.  This would be basically what the Davis and LaCrosse
external hacks do, but without any of the database access.

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