[Xastir] Weather Stations

[Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate]

Looking just now, you have no packets in the system for today. I checked
the aggregator database I maintain for CWOP. Something's not going out...
or isn't right.

And, as much as I like and respect Hessu, please confirm operation on
findu.com... that's the "official" CWOP check-site.

Gerry N5JXS
CWOP servers
APRS Core servers

On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 4:13 PM Dj Merrill <xastir at deej.net> wrote:

> I think I have this working, maybe. The APRS extension to weewx creates
> a text file with a weather packet, such as:
>
> /272050z4355.97N/06956.34W_031/003g006t000r000P023h37b06495WX-Topsham,Maine
>
> I have a script that reads that file and sends the packet with:
>
> xastir_udp_client localhost 2023 N1JOV-7 (passcode) -to_rf -to_inet
>
> "/272050z4355.97N/06956.34W_031/003g006t000r000P023h37b06495WX-Topsham,Maine"
>
> where (passcode) is my 4 digit APRS passcode.
>
> Within Xastir I can see the packets being transmitted via the RF link,
> and can view them from another APRS station over the RF link.
>
> However, I (perhaps incorrectly) assumed that the weather data would
> show up under the "weather" tab on aprs.fi:
> https://aprs.fi/weather/a/N1JOV-7
>
> I don't see anything, and I also don't see the "raw" weather packets on
> aprs.fi either.
>
> Am I misunderstanding how weather data works, or is it just not doing
> what I expected?
>
> -Dj
>
>
> On 10/1/2018 9:38 PM, Dj Merrill wrote:
> > I think I have figured out one possibility that I will test once I
> > have some time.
> >
> > There is a WeeWX extension to generate APRS packets and write them to
> > a file:
> > https://github.com/cavedon/weewx-aprs
> >
> > If I can get that to work, I can write a simple bash script that will
> > read that file, and use the Xastir command "xastir_udp_client" to send
> > the data to either the RF port, the Internet, or both. Call the script
> > from a cron job that runs as often as needed.
> >
> > I should be able to do some simple checks to ensure that the same data
> > isn't sent twice (ie, if the file hasn't been updated, don't do
> > anything).
> >
> > Assuming all of that works, I'll be able to use WeeWX to send the
> > weather data to the Internet servers directly, and to generate the
> > html files to be able to view the weather station data directly, then
> > enable the above script if I want to send the weather data over RF
> > using Xastir.
> >
> > I'll let you know how it goes.
> >
> > -Dj
> >
>
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