[Xastir] Xastir & Weather alerts

Jeremy Utley jerutley at gmail.com
Thu May 26 21:40:40 PDT 2016 

Hey Curt -

Thanks for the response.  My Xastir was checked out of CVS only 3 or 4 days
ago.  A lot of the files currently referenced in the get-NWSdata script are
outdated at this point, and at least the first two could not even be
downloaded successfully.  I ended up pulling the files manually to make sure
I got the current data.  The files starting with w,z,mz,fz, and c all appear
to have been updated last month, and some of them will have new updates next
month as well.  I could probably whip up a quick patch to this file to fix
them, if you'd like.  That was actually my first thought as to why things
were not working - I thought that maybe Xastir's code looked for
specifically named files in the Counties directory - but a grep of the
source code pretty much told me that was not the case.  Now I know that your
WX server is offline, that probably explains why I'm not getting anything
currently, so I'll wait until you get it back up and online, and see what
happens.

Thanks for the response, and let me know if you'd like me to whip up a patch
for the fetch script to make it grab the current files - that's well within
my capabilities!

Jeremy, NQ0M


-----Original Message-----
From: Xastir [mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Curt
Mills
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 11:06 PM
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir & Weather alerts

What version of Xastir? It has to be reasonably up-to-date to fetch the
latest NWS weather alerts via the script, and to know how to display them.

Also: The weather server that I run is down right now. It is being rebuilt
and may be back on in a week or so. It fills in the alerts that the other
weather server run by another doesn't do.

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Jeremy Utley <jerutley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I have been getting back into APRS, thanks to some new activity in my 
> area of SE Kansas.  I've set up the first I-Gate in the area here at 
> home, using a R-Pi, TNC-Pi, and APRX software, and am also planning to 
> enable the digi functions this weekend, and also get a setup into my 
> vehicle with an old android smartphone and a Mobilinkd Bluetooth TNC.  
> I've also set up Xastir on an Ubuntu VM on my desktop to monitor the 
> APRS-IS feed.  Since I'm active in storm watching functions in the 
> area, I'd like the NWS alerts showing up on my screen.  I thought I 
> did everything needed for it, but maybe I've missed something.  Is 
> this functionality still present in Xastir?
>
> I've run the get-NWSdata script - 2 of the files it's trying to 
> download are no longer valid links, so I went to the weather.gov 
> geodata site and manually downloaded/extracted the current ones.  
> Here's a list of my current files in /usr/local/share/xastir/Counties:
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   277095 Apr 15 07:28 c_05ap16.dbf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root      167 Feb 12 13:20 c_05ap16.prj
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 54354332 Apr 15 07:28 c_05ap16.shp
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    26780 Apr 15 07:28 c_05ap16.shx
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1198644 Apr 13 14:29 fz05ap16.dbf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root      167 Jan 21 15:08 fz05ap16.prj
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 56793344 Apr 13 14:29 fz05ap16.shp
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    26876 Apr 13 14:29 fz05ap16.shx
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     2273 Sep 24  2014 hz04jn14.dbf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root      167 Jun 24  2014 hz04jn14.prj
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 22734160 Sep 24  2014 hz04jn14.shp
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root      156 Sep 24  2014 hz04jn14.shx
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   181791 Apr 15 14:21 mz05ap16.dbf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root      167 Feb 12 08:54 mz05ap16.prj
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 26672724 Apr 15 14:21 mz05ap16.shp
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     4076 Apr 15 14:21 mz05ap16.shx
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    20946 Jun 18  2014 oz01ap14.dbf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root      167 Mar 10  2014 oz01ap14.prj
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   653680 Jun 18  2014 oz01ap14.shp
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root      740 Jun 18  2014 oz01ap14.shx
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root       85 May 23 12:43 placeholder
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    26061 Apr 13 14:31 w_05ap16.dbf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root      167 Feb 12 13:24 w_05ap16.prj
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 34517152 Apr 13 14:31 w_05ap16.shp
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     1084 Apr 13 14:31 w_05ap16.shx
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1298742 Apr 12 14:09 z_05ap16.dbf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root      167 Feb 12 13:26 z_05ap16.prj
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 64935232 Apr 12 14:09 z_05ap16.shp
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    29948 Apr 12 14:09 z_05ap16.shx
>
> I'm connected up to the firenet.aprs2.net server on port 14580, with a 
> proper passcode, and the following filter parameters:
>
> m/500 t/n e/WE7U-WX p/QUAKE o/ISS*/STEAM/UP844
>
> I've got the OSM_tiled_mapquest.geo map as my only enabled map 
> currently, and I've got multiple watches and warnings in my area, but 
> nothing is appearing on my map currently, and no abnormal messages 
> showing up in the terminal I launched Xastir from.  If I go to 
> View...Weather Alerts, I only see 2 alerts labeled as NWS_ADVIS - but 
> there's an active Tornado Watch within 25 miles of my location, as 
> well as Flood warnings, Thunderstorm Warnings, and other severe weather
related stuff within about 100 miles.
>
> Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremy, NQ0M
>
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