[Xastir] Weather Stations

[Jason KG4WSV]

I've got a feeling there's a way to do it by talking to Xastir's
server port and igating to RF.

-j




On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 2:56 PM Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate
<gerry.creager at noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> It might be easier to run an instance of aprsc on another RPi3 and have
> that allow you to get the data locally, as well as having the aprsc
> instance talk to one (or more) of the servers...
>
> That might break our round-robin paradigm, however. I'll have to cogitate
> on that for a bit.
>
> gerry
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 5:24 PM Dj Merrill <xastir at deej.net> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Gerry.
> >
> > If you don't mind running an older version of Xastir (2.0.4 I believe),
> > you can just do a "apt-get install xastir" to install it on the RPi.
> >
> > It didn't take very long to compile version 2.1.1 on a model 3 B. I
> > think it may have taken me about 30 mins in total from doing the "git
> > clone" to having it up and running (copying a working Xastir config from
> > the previous version).
> >
> > Is there any way to have WeeWX send the data directly to Xastir? I would
> > like to avoid a dependency on the Internet for getting the data from the
> > weather station, and I can potentially see a desire to be able to send
> > the weather data via the APRS RF link in the future.
> >
> > If not, then I might be back to figuring out how to have Xastir talk to
> > the weather station directly.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Dj
> >
> >
> > On 9/25/2018 5:38 PM, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
> > > Another project I want to pursue: Xastir on a Pi. Should be
> > > straightforward, but I need more than the usual 28 hours in the workday!
> > >
> > > Since you've got a callsign, have WeeWx send data to 'rotate.aprs.net'
> > and '
> > > rotate.aprs2.net' then connect to one of the Core servers and snag
> > weather
> > > data from the Core. There's also an aggregation service where you can get
> > > data if you want to get more than just ham operators, but I don't
> > advertise
> > > that much...
> > >
> > > gerry
> > >
> > >
> >
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-Jason
kg4wsv