[Xastir] Davis, Lacrosse weather code modified, need testers.

[Dean Groe]

I have had a few days of sporadic rain and few chances to observe how Xastir is reporting it.  

Last night after I returned home, between 2300 and 0000 utc, I noticed that Xastir was showing .42 inches in Today's Rain.  This looked correct. 

I happened to look at it again a little after 0000 utc, 2000 EDT local, and Today's Rain was 0.00 . So I guess that it now re-calcs at 0000z ? 


Now this AM I see that the Today's Rain number is still 0.00, even though we received another .31" overnight since 0000 utc.  When is Today's Rain (Since Midnight) filled in Xastir?  


Thanks  


Dean  KD4TWJ 

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>Message: 1
>Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:36:17 -0600
>From: Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org>
>To: Dean Groe <warpedspeed1 at yahoo.com>,    Xastir - APRS client software
>    discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
>Subject: Re: [Xastir] Davis, Lacrosse weather code modified, need
>    testers.
>Message-ID: <20120819173617.GA37759 at bogodyn.org>
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>There will be no update to Total Rain, it will remain blank.  The Davis/Meteo 
>"db2APRS" program does not in fact tell Xastir what the Total Rain is, it only 
>reports the 24-hour, 1-hour, and since-midnight rates.  Xastir had previously 
>been putting the 24-hour data into the Total Rain value, but that was wrong. 
>There is no code in Xastir to recover Total Rain from any of the rates, only
>to compute rates from total rain.
>
>To get Total Rain right would require modification of the db2aprs program to
>output that data (it *is* stored in the Meteo database, just not reported
>by db2aprs), and a change to the Davis/Meteo code in Xastir to read it.
>
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