[Xastir] Davis Weather APRS Data Streamer

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:39:25AM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <bgrattan at umw.edu> flavor, containing:
> 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.

Is this the one with the APRS data logger attached?  That's all my code 
supports.  Without that attachment, you need Meteo and the database interface.

> 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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