[Xastir] Weather alerts are running again

[Curt Mills]

I wrote a script last night which emails me once an hour if the weather
alert program falls over. This should help to keep weather alert processing
going long-term.

I'm also working to set up a second weather alert processing VM "out there"
for redundancy, geographically separated from the first. That will happen
but it might be a month or two until it is operational.


On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 3:04 PM Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yep. Should be permanent. They went away while I was recuperating from
> some broken bones last summer and I didn't notice. When it was pointed out
> to me some months later I couldn't find any feeds, now I have four. I just
> found out the feeds go in a round-robin fashion and don't all pull at once
> so I'm going to enable all four tonight.
>
> I'm toying with the idea of erecting a similar setup on a geographically
> remote VM from the first: Both could feed APRS-IS and Firenet at once.
> Redundancy. I haven't asked for permission to hand another server off the
> feeds yet but the data I'm pulling is low-bandwidth so chances are good if
> I ask nicely.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 2:58 PM Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) <KJ4ERJ at arrl.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Curt!  I did notice some alerts recently and was hoping they
>> were back and not just temporarily.
>>
>> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
>>
>>
>> On 4/1/2019 3:40 PM, Curt Mills wrote:
>> > I have weather alert feeds again! I have access to four identical feeds
>> > with three currently enabled and feeding my scripts. I finally managed
>> to
>> > verify that they are going out by receiving them on my Xastir screen at
>> > work.Thanks to Gerry Creager and a buddy of his for helping me get raw
>> > feeds again!
>> >
>> > If you have the proper maps loaded into Xastir and have weather alert
>> > display enabled in the Xastir menus, these alerts will light up warning
>> > areas on your map automatically.
>> >
>> > Note: There are two of us dumping weather alerts out to APRS-IS and/or
>> > Firenet. We each decided to process different things, and we did
>> entirely
>> > different development of our programs/scripts between us (no
>> coordination).
>> > More than likely you'll never notice an absence of _all_ WX alerts, but
>> > some important ones for you might be missing if either of the wx alert
>> > processors is down at any given time. Hopefully that won't occur again
>> for
>> > a long while.
>> >
>>
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