[Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

[Dean Groe]

OK Curt, it was the filters.  I guess that I missed that in the documentation.  I took a look at the firenet wiki today also.
  
When I was using rotate instead of firenet, I did not have any extra filters, and still received alerts... when it worked.  Maybe it works now, but with the filters.  

I am now seeing alerts in View ->Weather Alerts, so that part if working.  Nothing local, but I see alerts now.  

Thanks  
 
Dean  KD4TWJ  




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> From: "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
>To: Dean Groe <warpedspeed1 at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com>; Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org> 
>Sent: Friday, June 7, 2013 7:35 AM
>Subject: Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts
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>On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Dean Groe wrote:
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>> We had a couple of Tornado Warnings from MLB here today, associated with Tropical Storm Andrea.  
>> I did not receive any alerts from firenet . Plenty of other data, but no Wx Alerts.  
>> I have Wx alert Logging turned on, nothing logged. 
>> What am I missing?  
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>When I look at incoming data and disconnect/reconnect to the internet server, I see one of these:
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>     N5JXS-F1
>     WE7U-F1
>     WE7U-F2
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>Those are the three Firenet servers.  So that's the first check, make sure it's one of those three.  The last time we had a problem it was because other aprs2.net servers were getting into the Firenet rotation for DNS.
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>Next is filter strings.  Here's mine:
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>     m/500 t/n e/WE7U-WX p/QUAKE o/ISS*/STEAM/UP844
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>It's the "t/n e/WE7U-WX" portion that's important for what you're after.
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>I'm seeing lots of areas lit up in yellow/red/blue in Florida right now, as well as green rectangles and blue flood warning symbols.  I don't currently see tornado symbols but have seen them on the map in the last day or so.  To see these you need:
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>     Station->Filter Data->Select Objects/Items ON
>     Station->Filter Data->Select Other Objects/Items ON
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>Of course no delivery of these to your screen is guaranteed:  Several things must be working perfectly in unison for the alerts to actually show up on your Xastir screen.  Any time you think there's a problem though I want to hear about it.  The last time things weren't working it was due to that Firenet DNS issue, which required human intervention to fix.
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>Curt, WE7U.        http://wetnet.net/~we7u
>Closed-minded about open (-source)...
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