<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1251">
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2655.35">
<TITLE>RE: [Xastir-dev] WX input addtion?</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<BR>
<BR>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hmmm.... </FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I looked over the [aprsd] docs and it looks intriguing - but several key questions come to mind: </FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>It looks like I'd have to apply position information and packet routing - something I was hoping to use xastir to coordinate... unless you have a different slant than treating the wx packet as digipeated data?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I had thought of similar approaches, feeding AX25 the packets (I do have AX25-kernel support built in) with the same reservations. I have not explored how xastir would treat such data, but I assume it would not recognise the weather data as being it's own, rather as a "nearby" station.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Have you done something similar? How did it function exactly?</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks for bringing up the idea, Brian! I am going to investigate further, since I haven't played with aprsd. I'll set it up on my other Linux server and see what it can do...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Bruce Bennett</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>BBennett@Spang.COM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>(440) 352-8600 X 3350</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>-------------------------------------------------------------</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. --Niels Bohr</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2> </FONT>
</P>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Brian D Heaton [<A HREF="mailto:bdheaton@c4i2.com">mailto:bdheaton@c4i2.com</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 7:11 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: Bennett, Bruce</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Cc: xastir-dev@xastir.org</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: [Xastir-dev] WX input addtion?</FONT>
</P>
<BR>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Bruce,</FONT>
</P>
<P> <FONT SIZE=2>If you run a local copy of aprsd on the machine you can input the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>weather packet via the UDP port. That would both gate the packet to the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>APRS-IS stream and to the locally connected Xastir client.</FONT>
</P>
<P> <FONT SIZE=2>73/N5VFF (Brian)</FONT>
</P>
<BR>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 08:00, Bennett, Bruce wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Gentlemen -</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> My home weather station is a Davis Weather Wizard III, which is not</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> currently supported by xastir. For all of us Davis Instruments and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Linux users, there is a nice weather recording package called “meteo”,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> current version meteo-0.9.4, see <<A HREF="http://meteo.othello.ch" TARGET="_blank">http://meteo.othello.ch</A>> that</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> utilizes mysql for data storage.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Being the programming type that I am, I have written a small utility</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> that produces an APRS Specification 1.01 “position-less” format</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> weather string containing the most recent meteo data and offers it up</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> on a TCP port (much like wx200d - from which much was borrowed, ref</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> <<A HREF="http://wx200d.sourceforge.net/" TARGET="_blank">http://wx200d.sourceforge.net/</A>> ). (It’s not yet ready for prime</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> time, though - early Alpha testing - check back if interested)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> My thought was that the APRS Specification format, as an input to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> xastir, might be a nice additional format for xastir to recognize, for</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> use as a generalized weather-daemon connection… Many WX station</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> types, one protocol type?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Does this idea appeal to the general xastir community, and the xastir</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> developers in specific? I’d even be willing to modify wx200d to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> produce data in the same format, if someone else with a Radio Shack WX</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> station could test it.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Bruce Bennett</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> BBennett@Spang.COM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> (440) 352-8600 X 3350</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> -------------------------------------------------------------</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> There are more bad drivers on the road than there used to be, which is</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> an unintended side effect of the mandatory seatbelt laws. They are</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> surviving longer...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> ______________________________________________________________________</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> _______________________________________________</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Xastir-dev mailing list</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Xastir-dev@xastir.org</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> <A HREF="https://krypton.hscs.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev" TARGET="_blank">https://krypton.hscs.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev</A></FONT>
</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>