[Xastir] Xastir weather alerts

[Curt Mills]

Thanks Tom!

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 11:35 AM Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 11:15:33AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> > It looks like some of the work cleaning up compiler warnings resulted in
> > broken code to concatenate strings.
> >
> > I'm looking into it.  It may take a while.
>
> Or not.  Found the spot where things were being done wrong, and it was
> indeed
> the result of a broken cleanup of compiler warnings in the alerts code.
> The
> fix should be on github as of now.
>
> > On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 11:08:32AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> > > In a recent message, Apostolos Kefalas asked:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > >
> > > I am on Xastir v2.1.3 (6884c6f9) and now I have noticed that the
> > > weather alert list (View -> Weather Alerts) is not showing all the
> > > data.
> > >
> > > I remember in older versions of Xastir we could see the type of alert,
> > > expiration time and area codes.
> > >
> > > Happy New Year to All
> > >
> > > Apostolos, SV1LJJ
> > >
> > > ----
> > >
> > > It looks suspiciously like something has changed in the data coming in
> related
> > > to weather alerts, and xastir is improperly parsing it.
> > >
> > > For example, a quick view of my net feed shows this packet coming in:
> > >
> > > UNRWSW>APRS,TCPIP,qAO,WE7U-WX::NWS-WARN
> :300100z,WINTER_WEATHER,SDZ14-31-32-41>44 {THj1D
> > >
> > > But all that shows up in the weather alerts box is:
> > >
> > > UNRWSW  THj1D  NWS-WARN  z
> > >
> > > Somehow that incoming data is not properly being parsed anymore.  Most
> of the
> > > alerts I find in my wx alerts dialog look like this, with a few extra
> > > adornments, like:
> > >
> > > ABRWSW  T3Y4B NWS-WARN 03 @z
> > >
> > > Very, very few have full data, but some do:
> > > SGFFLS  10020 NWS_ADVIS 01 @0000z ==> 03 @0224z NI MO_C185 FLOOD
> > >
> > > Whether this is a change in the incoming data formatting or something
> broken
> > > in Xastir's code is another question.  Looks like we need a deep dive
> into
> > > the alert parsing code to see if there are changes necessary.  The
> alert code
> > > has not had meaningful changes in a very long time.  There was some
> effort
> > > to eliminate compiler warnings in 2017 and again earlier this year,
> but those
> > > should not have changed functionality.
> > >
> > > However, Xastir does have an NWS-TEST.log file that we're supposed to
> be
> > > able to read in and get alerts, and when I read it in it shows up as
> garbled
> > > alerts just like the new ones have.
> > >
> > > Interestingly enough, though, when I read in NWS-TEST.log the alerts
> do show
> > > up on the map.  The data is just missing in the alert dialog box.
> > >
> > > So it looks like something got mangled in the code where data is
> parsed out
> > > for display in the dialog, but there is enough information getting
> decoded to
> > > display it on the map.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tom Russo    KM5VY
> > > Tijeras, NM
> > >
> > >  echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z]
> [n-z][a-m]
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Xastir mailing list
> > > Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
> >
> > --
> > Tom Russo    KM5VY
> > Tijeras, NM
> >
> >  echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z]
> [n-z][a-m]
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
>
> --
> Tom Russo    KM5VY
> Tijeras, NM
>
>  echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z]
> [n-z][a-m]
>
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