[Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

[Dean Groe]

OK, I guess that I learned something new.  
So I have to use firenet, not the standard rotate pool?  

I remember seeing some talk about Wx Alerts on firenet before, but I assumed that was targeted to people who wanted to optionally use that feed AND get alerts.  

If I remember correctly, we are NOT supposed to inject additional data / objects into firenet.  
I am currently running Xastir as a bi-directional I-Gate and Wx Station.  

So if I understand this correctly, I can either have an I-Gate with the rotate feed, or I can get (and Gate to RF) Wx alerts from firenet, but not both.  
Is this correct?  

Curt, I think it was about a week and a half ago that I compiled from latest and got and ran the latest NWS script, so it should pretty much be up to date.  

Thanks  
 
Dean  KD4TWJ  




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> From: "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
>To: "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com> 
>Cc: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>; 'Dean Groe' <warpedspeed1 at yahoo.com> 
>Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 2:41 AM
>Subject: Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts
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>On Mon, 20 May 2013, Curt, WE7U wrote:
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>> Found something:  Connecting to "firenet.aprs2.net" right now causes problems, which is a bit annoying 'cuz that's the round-robin address which spreads the load across all three firenet servers.  Every time I connected Xastir to that one I got:
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>>    # logresp WE7U-3 verified, server T2CAEAST
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>> Which is interesting, 'cuz I don't know who "T2CAEAST" is...   It's not one of the three Firenet servers.  I'll talk to the T2 guys and get that fixed. Somehow we got a bad server in the rotation.
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>> This one works:
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>>    firenet.us:14580
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>> And this is the filter string I'm using:
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>>    m/500 t/n e/WE7U-WX p/QUAKE o/ISS*/STEAM/UP844
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>> I'm starting to see areas light up finally!
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>The three individual addresses of Firenet servers are:
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>    firenet-1.aprs2.net
>    firenet-2.aprs2.net
>    firenet-3.aprs2.net
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>Any of those should work as well.  "firenet.us" and "firenet-1.aprs.2.net" are the same machine.
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>Once the bogus server is out of the rotation, the preferred address will be "firenet.aprs2.net" again because it spreads the load across all three servers.
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>-- Curt, WE7U.        http://wetnet.net/~we7u
>Closed-minded about open (-source)...
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