[Xastir] Announcing the release of Xastir version 2.1.0

2018-02-11 Thread Tom Russo 
[Posted initially to the Xastir mailing list and APRSSIG --- please feel
 free to redistribute to other APRS fora as appropriate]

The Xastir team has just released version 2.1.0 of the Xastir APRS client,
its first release since moving the project from SourceForge to Github in
July of 2016.

This is primarily a maintenance release, but contains a few notable 
user-contributed updates that users of the live git repository have been
enjoying for some time:


- Added support for IPv6 in both Xastir server code and APRS-IS connection code.

- Added "wxnowsrv.pl" script to support feeding Xastir weather data via the 
  WXNOW.TXT mechanism.

- Fixed compressed weather alert handling.

- Added correct dbfawk files for most recent NWS shapefiles for accurate
  weather alert highlighting.

- Added a few on line maps from geograits.gc.ca.

- Fixed area computation of CAD objects.

- Added support for proportional fonts in map labels.

- New scripts added to support feeding ADS-B and AIS data into Xastir.

- Many old GEO files for online maps stopped working when servers they 
  referenced were taken down. Most of these have been removed. If you find 
  other .geos that don't work, please report this on the Xastir mailing list.

- Added new fosm OpenStreetmaps tile server GEO.

Xastir releases may be downloaded in source form at 
  https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/releases
The latest release may always be found at
  https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/releases/latest

Instructions for building Xastir from source are available on the Xastir wiki
at http://xastir.org/ under the "Installation Notes" section.

Links to the Xastir mailing list may be found on the Xastir wiki, should you 
wish to subscribe.

Binary packages for various distributions of Linux are provided by other 
volunteer package maintainers, and this new release may take some time to 
propagate to your favorite distribution.  If you are a package maintainer for
Xastir, you should note that you will need to update your package building
process to point at the new download location at Github instead of SourceForge.
[This information previously posted to the Xastir mailing list, but since this
email is getting wider distribution, I'm repeating it.]

Share and enjoy.

-- 
Tom RussoKM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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Re: [Xastir] WXNOW.txt request

2018-02-11 Thread Joseph LaFerla 
Thanks Tom.  I appreciate it.

Joe VA3JLF


Sent from Mail for Windows 10

From: Tom Russo
Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 11:41 PM
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
Subject: Re: [Xastir] WXNOW.txt request

On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 10:34:01PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron 
collision of the  flavor, containing:
> Tom Russo
> 
> This may come a little late but I was wondering if the script to support 
> wxnow.txt weather stations  could incorporate a date and timestamp.  It will 
> make it possible to check whether the weather station is sending proper 
> updated data.  You may recall that some months ago you wrote me a script 
> called wxnow.pl that I have been using constantly.  Thank you again for that. 
>  The date and timestamps could print on the View|Own weather data window.  I 
> was also wondering if the new script would include an option to display the  
> weather station name.  In the current version, the station name is a Davis 
> and cannot be changed, as far as I can see,

As it is now, no, it would not be possible.

The wxnowsrv.pl script is constrained by having to masquerade to Xastir
as if it were a Davis or Lacrosse weather station --- so it must do exactly
what the Davis and Lacrosse servers do, which is provide exactly one line
of output, with the weather data in it.  No weather stations in Xastir
have the option of providing datestamps on the data.

The Xastir code to handle Davis weather stations is kinda kludgy and depends
on the presence of a string that says the station is a Davis.  Even LaCrosse
weather stations masquerade as Davis to get past this bit of code --- my
own weather station is a LaCrosse, and has been reporting to CWOP as if it were
a Davis for many years.  Allowing a different string would mean having to hack 
on some messy bits in the weather station code, which is more than I have time 
to do right now.

You'll have to get the time stamp information out-of-band, since it's already 
in the WXNOW.txt file.

Sometime this year maybe I can look over the weather station code and see if
I can untangle the decoding so that other station types can be handled without
pretending they're all coming from a Davis.  But it won't be anytime soon,
and it won't be in the 2.1.0 release.

-- 
Tom RussoKM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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