[Xastir] How to prevent Xastir from sending bad WX data

[Eric Christensen]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:40, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, clayj at nwlink.com wrote:
>
>> I've got a Davis WMII connected to Xastir via a socket; and occasionally,
>> the system that feeds Xastir will drop the socket connection.
>>
>> My problem is that Xastir continues to send weather data using the last
>> values, until I find and correct the problem; which, in some cases might
>> be several hours or even a day or two.
>>
>> Is there any way to keep Xastir from transmitting the WX data if it sees
>> the Weather Station interface "go away"?
>
> This is a known problem for at least a year or two.  The fix would
> be to have a global time value that gets set every time a valid
> weather update comes in.  Perhaps even a separate one for each type
> of weather data?
>
> Then:  Only output weather data if the data has not aged-out, or
> only output the portions of weather data that haven't aged-out.
>
> This would require code tweaks.
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U.                         <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer>

How about disabling weather packets when the weather port goes red?

--Eric W4OTN