[Xastir] Weather station type

[clayj at nwlink.com]

I'll take a look at the db2aprs code tonight and reply to this; but, my
recollection is that it (db2aprs) actually generates the "xDvs" at the end
of the string - I seem to recall that Xastir (at least in one version)
actually checks for that and if it's NOT there will reject the data.

I'll reply here and let you know.

Clay
N7QNM


> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Dean wrote:
>
>> What do I need to do so that my Weather Station Type is passed with my
>> frames?
>>
>> I am currently using a Davis Vantage Pro, with Meteo and DB2APRS.  I do
>> not have
>> an APRS specific data logger.
>>
>> Per the Meteo documentation, I have my Station Type set to "VantagePro"
>> in the
>> Meteo XML file.
>>
>> My Weather Station type is simply being interpreted as "Xastir 1.9.8",
>> from the
>> APX198 TOCALL in my frames.
>
> I looked at your raw packets on aprs.fi and there definitely is no
> weather station type added to the end of the packets.  Depending on
> the weather packet type it's possible per the APRS spec to transmit
> the type of weather station as an extension on the end.  For some
> types of weather stations we can do that in Xastir.
>
> The code in wx.c is looking for "xDvs" to parse out the Davis
> w/Meteo & db2aprs packets.  Page 63 of APRS spec 1.0 says "Dvs" to
> signify Davis, so that's what you're looking to be transmitting.  I
> don't know how that figures in to the Meteo and/or db2aprs
> configuration, if any.
>
> Ah, the "x" means Linux per the spec, so you do want to add the
> "xDvs" string onto the end of the "Positionless Weather Report" per
> the spec.  Whether Xastir needs to be tweaked in order to do that is
> now the question, or whether db2aprs can or should add that on the
> end of the packets it presents to Xastir.
>
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