[Xastir] Weather station type

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Hi, Dean -

Well, yeah, I was someplace sort of fun yesterday; at OSCON in Portland.  
Lots of "interesting" stuff there, not much of which I (unfortunately)
have time for right now.  Work keeps interfereing with hobbies.

So - the bottom line is that what Xastir does with each weather station
type is (right now) dependent on the specific code for that type; and,
each station type is coded completely independently of any other station
type.   I took a look at this a few months ago, and couldn't really figure
out an "elegant" (or at least non-kludge) way to fix that, either
specifically for the Davis or generically.

This is definitely on the list of things I want to change; once I get some
time to get back into the code.   That may actually happen sooner rather
than later now, since I have some additional incentive - I just turned up
a "remote" (180 miles away from my current QTH) station (N7QNM-10) that
I'd like to capture (and record in database).

I'll definitely post progress (or even lack thereof) to the list.

Curt - at OSCON, I had a long (for that venue - 20 minute) chat with the
developers of Maria (the original MySQL guys that started broke away when
SUN was acquired by Oracle.   In the next release, due out "sometime this
year"; they're going to have FULL OpenGIS support NATIVE within Maria.  
They've actually hired a guy to focus on just this (they had one guy who
left, and they just replaced him).


More later....

Clay




> Well, it only took me seven months to get upgraded to Xastir v2.x on the
> home station....  
>
> I figured that I would rattle this chain again. 
> If you have a really great memory, you will recall that I was wondering
> why Xastir was not passing on my WxStation type, and what could easily be
> done about it.  In my case it is a Davis Vantage Pro, but I wonder if
> Xastir properly sends any WxStation types. 
>
> Just a few minutes ago, db2APRSgenerated the following string;
> _0727181800c243s006g010t084r000p000P000h70b10151xDvs
>
> Then shortly afterward, Xastir announced the following to the world, via
> my station;  
> KD4TWJ>APX201,TCPIP*,qAC,T2ZUG:=2833.40N/08114.24W_243/006g010t084r000P000p000h70b10151
>
> Notice the xDvs at the end of the db2APRS string.  It appears that
> db2APRSis doing it's part. 
>
> Any ideas? 
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Dean KD4TWJ 
>    
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Dean <warpedspeed1 at yahoo.com>
>> To: xastir at lists.xastir.org
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 12:59 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Weather station type
>>
>> As you may have noticed, my Wx station is still at 1.9.8 . 
>> It would be cool if the Station Type was added when I do the 2.x update,
>> but not
>> a big deal.
>>
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>> Message: 5
>> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:51:20 -0800 (PST)
>> From: clayj at nwlink.com
>> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion"
>>     <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Weather station type
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>> So - between fighting crowds trying to get a dead UPS returned and some
>> other issues like DB2APRS crashing; I didn't really get too much into
>> things last nite - I DID verify that DB2APRS IS appending 'xDvs' to the
>> APRS string; so, it will take a mod in Xastir to make this happen.
>>
>> I would think we'd want this to be a "user selectable" thing; and
>> also
>> make sure it ONLY happened on non-compressed weather report strings. 
>> Let's see what I get to over the weekend.
>>
>> Clay
>> N7QNM
>>
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