[Xastir] Davis Weather APRS Data Streamer

[clayj at nwlink.com]

I've actually played around with an external program that will read a file
(WXNOW.TXT) and spit it out to a socket.   It would be pretty easy to do
that here.

Is there a spec somewhere on the new Davis software (I'm hoping it's
compatible with the WMII).

Clay Jackson
N7QNM

> 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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