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<P><FONT FACE="Arial">Gentlemen -</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Arial">My home weather station is a Davis Weather Wizard III, which is not currently supported by xastir. For all of us Davis Instruments and Linux users, there is a nice weather recording package called “meteo”, current version meteo-0.9.4, see<U> </U></FONT><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial"><<A HREF="http://meteo.othello.ch" TARGET="_blank">http://meteo.othello.ch</A>></FONT></U><FONT FACE="Arial"> that utilizes mysql for data storage.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial">Being the programming type that I am, I have written a small utility that produces an APRS Specification 1.01 “position-less” format weather string containing the most recent meteo data and offers it up on a TCP port (much like wx200d - from which much was borrowed, ref</FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial"><<A HREF="http://wx200d.sourceforge.net/" TARGET="_blank">http://wx200d.sourceforge.net/</A>></FONT></U><FONT FACE="Arial"> ). (It’s not yet ready for prime time, though - early Alpha testing - check back if interested)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial">My thought was that the APRS Specification format, as an input to xastir, might be a nice additional format for xastir to recognize, for use as a generalized weather-daemon connection… Many WX station types, one protocol type?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial">Does this idea appeal to the general xastir community, and the xastir developers in specific? I’d even be willing to modify wx200d to produce data in the same format, if someone else with a Radio Shack WX station could test it.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Bruce Bennett</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">BBennett@Spang.COM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(440) 352-8600 X 3350</FONT>
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