[Xastir] Rainfall

[Ray Wells]

Dave/All,

wview is not suited to my need to display 8 wx stations on a regional map.


I've been poking around in db.c an found what appears to be the code to 
display Humidity. The variable wx_prec_24 appears to be daily rainfall 
so, substituting for wx_hum and, converting to mm (on the assumption 
that imperial is used), I end up with the following from line 2825 in db.c

  if (!Display_.temperature_only) {
             if (strlen(weather->wx_prec_24) > 0) {
                 xastir_snprintf(wx_tm, sizeof(wx_tm), "R:%.1fmm", 
atof(weather->wx_prec_24)*25.4);
                 strncat(temp_wx_temp,
                     wx_tm,
                     sizeof(temp_wx_temp) - 1 - strlen(temp_wx_temp));
             }

Would anybody care to comment about this proposed alteration to db.c to 
display 24 hour Rain (R) in lieu of Humidity?

Ray vk2tv

On 25/10/10 03:23, Ray Wells wrote:
> Dave,
>
> Thanks for the thought.
>
> It's currently 3 am and I'm not in thinking mode. I will take a look 
> at wview at a sensible hour.
>
> Yes, I do run Linux - Mint 9 KDE on a couple of machines at home and 
> Debian v4.0 at the radio station and for my aprs gateway at home. V4 
> is a bit old but it isn't broken.
>
> Ray vk2tv
>
> On 25/10/10 01:47, David A Aitcheson wrote:
>> Ray,
>>
>> Most of the work may be done for you already!
>>
>> Have a look at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10782
>>
>> If you are running Xastir then you are running Linux and wview is a
>> Linux program.
>>
>> Wview reads CWOP data here in the US so it should be able to read BM
>> data in AUS.
>>
>> Just a suggestion that might be of use.
>>
>> Anyone else have a better idea?
>>
>> 73
>> Dave
>> KB3EFS
>>
>> On 10/24/2010 01:55 AM, Ray Wells wrote:
>>> I'm after some direction.
>>>
>>> I run xastir in the studio at the local community (public) radio
>>> station, to provide weather details at regional airports. Xastir runs
>>> under the stations AR Club callsign of VK2WET. Look here to find out
>>> why it's VK2WET - www.tankfm.org
>>>
>>> I'd like to be able to display total daily rainfall, as available at
>>> the airport sites from our Bureau of Meteorology either, in addition
>>> to the existing displayed items or, as a replacement for humidity. I'm
>>> not a programmer but I'm not adverse to 'having a go" if some kind
>>> soul can point me in the right direction.
>>>
>>> Ray vk2tv
>
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