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

[Clay Jackson]

Well, I just now saw this thread - but, if you read Xastir-DEV, I did just that a week or so ago (invalidated the  weather if the port goes red).   For my next trick, I've started a fairly major rewrite/consolidation of WX.C (there are at least two places I found that parse/set up APRS WX packets) - that's gonna take some time; but it's coming along.   I'm definitely going to put some messages (along with sanity checks) in for things like missing fields; as well as an "aging" function that will allow the user to select a limit on how old a weather report they want to still transmit.   

I'm also going to add "Weather File" functionality, so that Xastir can directly read/parse a "wxnow" file from Weather Display; and possibly also a Weather XML file from meteo (which would eliminate the need for DB2APRS, AND allow any XML file to be fed to Xastir.

Clay
N7QNM
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On Nov 16, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Eric Christensen wrote:
> 
>> How about disabling weather packets when the weather port goes red?
> 
> Cheater!
> 
> Yea, that might be a rather quick way of getting part of the desired
> functionality.  It should work for the times when the weather
> station just stops talking, but won't work for the times when one or
> more of the sensors go bad and the station nulls out those fields
> (much less common of course).
> 
> What do you think Clay?
> 
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