[Xastir] {Disarmed} Re: Davis Weather APRS Data Streamer

[Mike Stuart]

Robert,

Make sure you are using the APRS data logger 6540.  The other loggers, both
serial and usb, need to be polled for data.  The 6540 can be configured to
stream the data.

-Mike

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Robert Grattan <bgrattan at umw.edu> wrote:

> Tom,
>
> I would be glad to test for you.  I have a Davis VPro2 running into wview
> (ubuntu 9.04) which sends data to CWOP.  So far, I haven't been very
> successful in getting the data into xastir which is running on the same box.
>  Thanks.
>
> Bob N4MRV  (N4MRV-1 wx at :http://mysite.verizon.net/bgrattan/)
>
> >>> Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> 16-May-09 21:23 >>>
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 03:42:56PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <clayj at nwlink.com> flavor, containing:
> > Tom -- did you also fix the code that looks for a specific string at the
> > end of the APRS data to determine what kind of station it is?
>
> Looking at the documentation for the data logger,
>
> http://www.davisnet.com/product_documents/weather/manuals/07395-219_Adendm_06540.pdf
> ,
> it says that ".DsVP" is present at the end of all the strings from the
> logger.  Since that's what my patch looks for to determine that we're
> dealing
> with that unit, I think it's OK.
>
> What exactly are you asking?
>
> I'm going to give Mike a few more days to beta test before I commit the
> thing.
> If anyone else has one of these units, I'll provide the patch for them,
> too.
>
>
>
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