[Xastir] Weather alerts are running again

[Curt Mills]

I should have mentioned I have permission for that second raw feed already.
Just waiting on the VM to be created now before I can really start work.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 7:52 AM Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
>>
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