Re: [Xastir] Rainfall

2010-10-24 Thread Ray Wells
Piotr, The Australian Bureau of Meteorology issues such alerts and warnings and these are already displayed by xastir. My aim is to add to this information with current rainfall figures and I am almost there. Ray vk2tv On 25/10/10 16:44, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: Jason, I'm lookin

Re: [Xastir] Rainfall

2010-10-24 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
Jason, I'm looking to amend just my copy of xastir to suit a particular local need. By way of explanation, the Linux box providing the weather display for Hello. around here Czech weather stations (or operators...) use another technique. when rainfall exceeds 'safe' levels, and weather predict

Re: [Xastir] Rainfall

2010-10-24 Thread Ray Wells
Ok, I was on the right track with my alteration to db.c and, my weather stations now display rainfall instead of humidity - R:2.0mm. I now have to figure out why the reading is about 4 times actual rainfall. Back to the drawing board. Ray vk2tv On 25/10/10 08:46, Ray Wells wrote: Dave/All,

Re: [Xastir] Rainfall

2010-10-24 Thread Ray Wells
Jason, I'm looking to amend just my copy of xastir to suit a particular local need. By way of explanation, the Linux box providing the weather display for presenters is locked away, with the screen being visible through a window between the studio and the computer room. Presenters have no a

Re: [Xastir] Rainfall

2010-10-24 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Ray Wells wrote: > Would anybody care to comment about this proposed alteration to db.c to > display 24 hour Rain (R) in lieu of Humidity? Are you talking about a change in your copy of xastir, or the base code? If the latter, I'd be against that. Current humidit

Re: [Xastir] Rainfall

2010-10-24 Thread Ray Wells
Dave/All, wview is not suited to my need to display 8 wx stations on a regional map. I've been poking around in db.c an found what appears to be the code to display Humidity. The variable wx_prec_24 appears to be daily rainfall so, substituting for wx_hum and, converting to mm (on the assumpt

Re: [Xastir] What fun! GMail filtering

2010-10-24 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:05 PM, David A Aitcheson wrote: > Maybe it is time to set up a ftp server for file submissions, I have a limited space (100Mb) fully open anonymous ftp site. Xastir users and developers are welcome to use it to store temporary files for xastir troubleshooting and devel

Re: [Xastir] What fun! GMail filtering

2010-10-24 Thread Lee Bengston
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:01 PM, James Ewen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Kai Gunter Brandt > wrote: > >> use password on the zipfile and use a public know password and it should >> do fine i think. > > I just rename the .zip file to .zap and gmail doesn't snoop inside it > for the

Re: [Xastir] What fun! GMail filtering

2010-10-24 Thread David A Aitcheson
Curt, Maybe it is time to set up a ftp server for file submissions, or get more people involved in using the CVS / RCS / SVN setup we currently have? 73 Dave KB3EFS On 10/24/2010 12:18 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > Here's a bit I found about GMail about filtering attachments to > e-mails. Notice th

Re: [Xastir] What fun! GMail filtering

2010-10-24 Thread James Ewen
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Kai Gunter Brandt wrote: > use password on the zipfile and use a public know password and it should > do fine i think. I just rename the .zip file to .zap and gmail doesn't snoop inside it for the verboten files. Adding a password should work as gmail won't be

Re: [Xastir] What fun! GMail filtering

2010-10-24 Thread Kai Gunter Brandt
On 10/24/2010 06:18 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > Here's a bit I found about GMail about filtering attachments to > e-mails. Notice that *.sys files are filtered out even if they're > inside an archive. use password on the zipfile and use a public know password and it should do fine i think. Not sur

Re: [Xastir] Rainfall

2010-10-24 Thread Ray Wells
Dave, Thanks for the thought. It's currently 3 am and I'm not in thinking mode. I will take a look at wview at a sensible hour. Yes, I do run Linux - Mint 9 KDE on a couple of machines at home and Debian v4.0 at the radio station and for my aprs gateway at home. V4 is a bit old but it isn't

[Xastir] What fun! GMail filtering

2010-10-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
Here's a bit I found about GMail about filtering attachments to e-mails. Notice that *.sys files are filtered out even if they're inside an archive. If anyone has tried to send me a language file recently, please rename the file, zip, bzip, or gzip it, then attach it to an e-mail. Do not attach

Re: [Xastir] PNG snapshot issues

2010-10-24 Thread Lee Bengston
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Tony Hunt wrote: > Lee .. I went with the thought of reinstalling libxpm4 but before that I > first tried to enable the PNG snapshots again just to make sure it was still > busted. Today it works fine. So on the basis that I can not reproduce the > problem any more

Re: [Xastir] Rainfall

2010-10-24 Thread David A Aitcheson
Ray, Most of the work may be done for you already! Have a look at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10782 If you are running Xastir then you are running Linux and wview is a Linux program. Wview reads CWOP data here in the US so it should be able to read BM data in AUS. Just a suggestion tha

Re: [Xastir] PNG snapshot issues

2010-10-24 Thread Tony Hunt
Lee .. I went with the thought of reinstalling libxpm4 but before that I first tried to enable the PNG snapshots again just to make sure it was still busted. Today it works fine. So on the basis that I can not reproduce the problem any more I guess we will drop it. Its certainly odd. Even a rebo