[Xastir] Oregon Scientific wmr200

Sun Oct 29 19:27:54 PDT 2017

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 10:26:44PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <joe at laferla.ca> flavor, containing:
> Tom
> 
> You are right.  I mistyped and the file is actually wx200d.  And the script you provided in your separate post will make this unnecessary.

Only if wx200d actually supports the wmr200, which I don't belive it does,
unless there has been some recent hackage on it.

> From: Tom Russo
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2017 5:46 PM
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Oregon Scientific wmr200
> 
> 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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