[Xastir] How to get CWOP weather on APRS network

[Tom Russo]

You might take a look at:

https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/cwxn

and 

https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=38817.0


On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 12:57:31AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <morrison.monahans at sbcglobal.net> flavor, containing:
> Thanks for the info. I'll investigate it further.?? I'm running a Davis
> Vantage Pro 2, with Weewx reading the weather station console and forwarding
> the data to the NWS CWOP program. I should be able to create a report to
> create the wxnow.txt report.
> 
> 
> On 10/30/2020 3:24 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
> > I can't explain what Liz is doing, but Xastir supports "wxnow.txt" format
> > weather reports in a somewhat kludgy way.  Does your weather station by
> > any chance support such a format?
> > 
> > The trick is to run a little perl kludge I wrote that masquerades as a
> > Davis Meteo database server --- but instead of polling the Meteo database
> > it reads the wxnow.txt file and serves it up to Xastir in the right format.
> > 
> > That script's called "wxnowsrv.pl" in the Xastir scripts directory.
> > 
> > You run this script on the machine where the wxnow.txt file is
> > created, then tell Xastir to connect to it as a "Networked WX" interface.
> > 
> > See comments at the top of the script for more detail.
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 08:26:41AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <morrison.monahans at sbcglobal.net> flavor, containing:
> > > Can you explain how you do this?
> > > 
> > > On 10/30/2020 4:17 AM, Liz wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 00:07:19 -0500
> > > > Steven Morrison <morrison.monahans at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Another approach would be to read the new weather entries sent
> > > > > to APRS-IS for my callsign and transmit them from that report.
> > > > I'm still doing that. When I'm driving and see my weather displayed I
> > > > know that everything in the chain is working, and that includes my
> > > > internet ;)
> > > > 
> > > > Liz
> > > > VK2XSE
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Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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