[Xastir] Davis Weather APRS Data Streamer

[Mike Stuart]

Here is all I have from Davis:

http://www.davisnet.com/product_documents/weather/app_notes/apnote_35.pdf

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:56 AM, <clayj at nwlink.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux
> http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ <http://www.swcp.com/%7Erusso/>
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