[Xastir] Rainfall

[Ray Wells]

Ok, I was on the right track with my alteration to db.c and, my weather 
stations now display rainfall instead of humidity - R:2.0mm.

I now have to figure out why the reading is about 4 times actual rainfall.

Back to the drawing board.

Ray vk2tv

On 25/10/10 08:46, Ray Wells wrote:
> 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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