[Xastir] Weather Stations

[Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate]

Or writing the code to make your weather station Xastir-friendly...

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 3:32 PM Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've got a feeling there's a way to do it by talking to Xastir's
> server port and igating to RF.
>
> -j
>
>
>
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> 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dj Merrill - N1JOV - EAA Chapter 87
> > > Currently Flying: Glastar
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> > And little whorls have lesser whorls,
> > And so on to viscosity.”
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> -Jason
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Gerry Creager
NSSL/CIMMS
405.325.6371
++++++++++++++++++++++
“Big whorls have little whorls,
That feed on their velocity;
And little whorls have lesser whorls,
And so on to viscosity.”
Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953)