[Xastir] Weather Stations

[Dj Merrill]

Hi Gerry,
     Apologies for the late reply.  I've been out of town and am just 
getting back to this.

     I've just changed the server to cwop.aprs.net as you suggest.  A 
few weather packets have been sent as of 10:40AM EST 17 Nov.

     BTW, I am not running an Ambient weather station, I am running an 
Argent WS-1 weather station connected via WeeWX with the APRS extension 
that writes APRS packets to a file.

     Due to the recent discussion on this list related to invalid 
packets, I upgraded my Xastir installation to the latest and greatest as 
of about an hour ago. I don't know if that is what caused the 
unsupported packet that you noticed, but I figured it can't hurt.

Thanks for helping with this!

-Dj


On 11/6/2018 3:56 PM, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
> 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
>>>>>