[Xastir] Weather Stations

[Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate]

Dj

For the sake of experimentation, change your server to cwop.aprs.net and
let's see if the Core servers are getting the data. rotate.aprs2.net should
work; so should rotate.aprs.net.

Tier2 (rotate.aprs2.net) should share all its data with the Core (
rotate.aprs.net) and vice versa.the CWOP servers share amongst themselves,
and harvest the Core APRS servers solely for weather packets.

I don't have any aggregation service running on the core right now; that's
on my list for "spare time enhancements". I am wondering if something
you're doing is sending a non-weather packet out, but WeeWx tends to do a
pretty good job, as I see a fair number of them out there.

I'm still on the Xastir list primarily for historical purposes: I was a
long-time user but right now, my interests look a lot like "other things".
I do still manage the Core and CWOP servers, and as a linux wonk, Xastir's
been my favorite APRS client for a long time.

I'm not current on how-to's for weather stations, but your choice, because
it's fairly new, isn't as likely to be in there.Ambient has made weather
products for the consumer for a long time, but has only a "relatively" new
effort in automated weather stations. I guess I could disassemble my wife's
and see what the protocol looks like, then try to  hack it into WeeWx? Or,
is it natively supported?

gerry

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 12:22 PM Dj Merrill <xastir at deej.net> wrote:

> Hi Gerry,
>         It is still transmitting every ten minutes.  I left it on after our
> email exchange last week.  N1JOV-7 is the only station ID.
>
>         On the RF side I think I understand why it might not be going
> anywhere
> other than to stations in direct range of my station.  The man page for
> xastir_udp_client says "It will send the packet out the RF ports as
> third-party packets only if you add the "\-to_rf" flag after the
> passcode".  My current understanding is that a third party packet won't
> be passed along.
>
>         However, I am also transmitting it to the internet at the same time
> since I am using both "-to_rf" and "-to_inet" options.  Maybe I don't
> have the data being sent to the right place?  I only have one server
> setup for APRS "rotate.aprs2.net".  Do I need to setup a second server
> to send weather data, or does it also go through the same primary APRS
> servers?
>
>         Is there a "how to" guide somewhere describing the proper way to
> configure Xastir to talk to a weather station and send the weather data
> along to the Internet?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Dj
>
>
> On 11/06/2018 12:48 PM, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
> > Sorry. I went into an intensive Cray update cycle and lost sleep and most
> > of my mind for awhile. I'm STILL not seeing anything on the CWOP
> > aggregation server (<= 24 hr retention in this instance) for N1JOV-7. I'm
> > not sure you've been transmitting. Is there another callsign/ssid I
> missed?
> >
> > gerry
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 4:18 PM Dj Merrill <xastir at deej.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks Gerry.  It has been sending out data every 10 minutes since my
> >> note last night, so hopefully you'll see some data there today.
> >>
> >> -Dj
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/30/2018 05:13 PM, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
> >>> Erroneous values are Quality Checked (and flagged in MADIS) but
> wouldn't
> >>> preclude the data from showing up. On the server I'm checking, we only
> >> keep
> >>> 1 day in the mysql dtabase, so if you can leave it running for a bit
> >>> longer, I can look at things. I was out all weekend, and didn't play
> >>> computer or ham radio... and yesterday I worked late and didn't get to
> >> look
> >>> at email much either.
> >>>
> >>> gerry
> >>>
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