[Xastir] Oregon Scientific wmr200

[Tom Russo]

I don' know anything about wd200d, but Xastir already has code for supporting
something called "wx200d" that  is meant to hook up to Oregon Scientific
weather stations of some vintage.  wx200d speaks a binary protocol, and 
someone wrote code for it ages ago (the code is so old, it predates import
of Xastir into any version control system).

If you can get wx200d to read from your weather station, then you're finished.
All you need to do is to tell Xastir what machine is running wx200d on your net
and what port it's listening on.

wx200d is old enough that it might not support the wmr200, though.  It hasn't
been updated since around 2013.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/wx200d/

and 

http://wx200d.sourceforge.net/

There is an unanswered question on the sourceforge site for wx200d asking
whether wx200d would work with the wmr200.  My money is on "no, it doesn't."

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 02:42:48PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <joe at laferla.ca> flavor, containing:
> Hi all
> 
> Thanks for your contributions to this discussion!
> 
> I am a member of another list and a fellow there posted a daemon called wd200d.  I have a copy of that.  This is a link to it on my onedrive server
> 
> WD200D
> 
> I am not good at programming or any real advanced stuff but does this fit the bill?
> 
> Joe VA3JLF
> 
> 
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> 
> From: Jason KG4WSV
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2017 1:19 PM
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Oregon Scientific wmr200
> 
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> >
> > Oh, yeah, and looking over Joe's use case, where the wxnow.txt file is
> > generated on one Pi and consumed by a different pi in a different part of the
> > house, the network daemon approach is ideal --- the daemon would run on
> > the machine where wxnow.txt is created, and Xastir on any machine anywhere
> > in the house, connecting to that daemon on the other machine for its weather
> > data.  No need for samba (ugh) or other file sharing techniques.
> >
> > So again, my first option described below should be low-hanging fruit for
> > anyone who already knows how to write quickie Python network server scripts.
> > Or an interesting project for someone who *wants* to know how to do that and
> > who has the spare cycles to do the learning.
> 
> perl not python, but feel free to hack at
> 
> http://www.ece.uah.edu/~jdw/rockets/gps2aprs.txt
> 
> This script takes an NMEA sentence and sticks a prefix onto it,
> thereby making an (inefficient) APRS position report out of it.  This
> is pretty close to what Tom is suggesting, if I'm understanding
> correctly. it assumes it is running on the xastir system, but change
> "localhost" to the name of the remote pi and you're in business for
> remote connectivity.
> 
> about the first 20 and the last 20 lines relate to getting data to
> xastir via its server port. The stuff in between is extracting data
> from a serial port, which isn't relevant.  Reading from a txt file is
> a couple of lines easily derived by googling.
> 
> In order to get xastir to put it on the air, you'll have to do the
> configuration steps to make xastir gateway the weather packets, but I
> think that is already documented elsewhere.
> 
> and _please_ put coordinates on it, so it's not a position less
> weather packet...
> 
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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