Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-13 Thread ThorstenB
Unfortunately this means METAR is broken (probably permanently) for all previous FG versions now... As a follow-up to the METAR issue: there actually is a workaround for FG 1.9.x and 2.0 - by using a proxy server. The requests sent by FG to a configured proxy server are fine. And the actual

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-07 Thread Durk Talsma
On 05 Nov 2010, at 20:37, ThorstenB wrote: Anyway, what are the plans for the next FG release? Hi Thorsten, I have a gut feeling we might just have chatted about this; but anyways, after December 15 (approximately), My immediate workload is settling down a bit, and hoping that we may

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-07 Thread James Turner
On 7 Nov 2010, at 18:58, Durk Talsma wrote: I have a gut feeling we might just have chatted about this; but anyways, after December 15 (approximately), My immediate workload is settling down a bit, and hoping that we may pull a build off of the hudson machine, it should be too hard to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-07 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, James Turner wrote: On 7 Nov 2010, at 18:58, Durk Talsma wrote: I have a gut feeling we might just have chatted about this; but anyways, after December 15 (approximately), My immediate workload is settling down a bit, and hoping that we may pull a build off of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-07 Thread Frederic Bouvier
- Gene Buckle a écrit : Fred, is there any advantage to using VS2010 to build the Windows binaries with over the VS2008 compiler? I don't follow the C++ side of the house so I don't know of any compiler improvements that FG would benefit from. I'd stick to VS2008 until the next fg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-06 Thread fierst42
Thanks. I think it is pretty inconsiderate of the NOAA to change this two days before our largest flightsim event worldwide :-D But as you pointed out, METAR will have stopped working for older releases too. Which is even worse. m Op 05-11-10 20:37, ThorstenB schreef: That was a problem

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-06 Thread Maik Justus
Hello, to avoid this happen again in the future: Is it possible to add a metar-server functionality to the mpservers? If the NOAA protocol / access changes we only have to modify the mpservers, not the clients? Maik m schrieb am 06.11.2010 09:30: Thanks. I think it is pretty inconsiderate

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-06 Thread James Turner
On 6 Nov 2010, at 08:46, Maik Justus wrote: to avoid this happen again in the future: Is it possible to add a metar-server functionality to the mpservers? If the NOAA protocol / access changes we only have to modify the mpservers, not the clients? Just to be clear, NOAA aren't being

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-06 Thread fierst42
Hmmm Something is not quite right yet. I have recompiled simgear and fgfs. I had METAR info this morning, but now after a restart, it says NIL again. Intermittend... Is METAR info read on more than one place? m -- The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-06 Thread fierst42
Funny, I disabled METAR for global weather in the GUI and later set it to Live Data again, and now it is collecting METAR info again... without restarting. m Op 06-11-10 12:09, fiers...@zonnet.nl schreef: Hmmm Something is not quite right yet. I have recompiled simgear and fgfs. I had

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-06 Thread Ron Jensen
On Saturday 06 November 2010 03:51:28 James Turner wrote: On 6 Nov 2010, at 08:46, Maik Justus wrote: to avoid this happen again in the future: Is it possible to add a metar-server functionality to the mpservers? If the NOAA protocol / access changes we only have to modify the mpservers,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 12:23:33 -0600, Ron wrote in message 201011061223.33277.w...@jentronics.com: I looked at the NOAA site last night. http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ There are some seriously old metar files mixed in there!

[Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-05 Thread fierst42
Recompiled all very early this morning. I have just noticed that in global weather, there is no METAR data. METAR source is set to live data. In the METAR data box I read 'NIL'. Something broke the METAR updates? m

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-05 Thread James Turner
On 5 Nov 2010, at 08:16, fiers...@zonnet.nl wrote: Recompiled all very early this morning. I have just noticed that in global weather, there is no METAR data. METAR source is set to live data. In the METAR data box I read 'NIL'. Something broke the METAR updates? Torsten has been

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-05 Thread Erik Hofman
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 09:54 +, James Turner wrote: On 5 Nov 2010, at 08:16, fiers...@zonnet.nl wrote: Recompiled all very early this morning. I have just noticed that in global weather, there is no METAR data. METAR source is set to live data. In the METAR data box I read 'NIL'.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-05 Thread Heiko Schulz
Another option would be that the metar server is unavailable .. checking, jup: metar EHAM ERROR: no metar data available from at http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/EHAM.TXT I guess the same, I run a older GIT from early Octobre, and METAR worked two days

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-05 Thread Martin Fenelon
On Friday 05 November 2010 10:21, Heiko Schulz wrote: Another option would be that the metar server is unavailable .. checking, jup: metar EHAM ERROR: no metar data available from at http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/EHAM.TXT I guess the same, I run a