Looking at my weewx.conf file at the 'StdRESTfull' and 'CWOP' sections, I 
have 'enable' set to the, the 'station' is my callsign and the 'passcode' 
is my APRS passcode.
IIRC that was all that I needed to do. It is all documented in the Weewx 
user guide. My weather data appears on the 'aprs.fi' site.
Or am I missing something.
Susan VK3ANZ

On Wednesday, 31 August 2022 at 7:55:26 am UTC+10 [email protected] wrote:

> Unless there is something unduly complex about the $ULTW string, it's 
> highly likely that it can be formatted using the existing Cheetah tags. 
> That means it's just another file to be generated. No need to write any 
> code.
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 1:45 PM p q <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I haven't done this, but I'm willing to help out if you need it.
>>
>> What I would do with that set of requirements is to run Weewx normally, 
>> with a skin of your choice and the regular SQlite DB. I'd write a little 
>> piece of python code to read the db every 2 minutes (or whatever your 
>> interval is) and then do the formatting and writing to UART. I've done 
>> something similar for myself where I have a piece of python code that reads 
>> the db every 2 minutes and sends out a MQTT message that I use elsewhere. 
>> The code to do it should be pretty trivial. Turning the python into a 
>> daemon that runs automatically is also easy to do. 
>>
>> I'm sure you could do it with a custom skin and some javascript.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 1:30 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know if this has been brought up yet, but in amateur radio we 
>>> use weather data with a mode called APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting 
>>> System).  We can report weather data through the APRS packet network over 
>>> the radio using 1200 baud AFSK packet.  One of the things that has fallen 
>>> away over the years is APRS weather station because there are not that many 
>>> weather stations available that output a serial stream to parse and 
>>> transmit.  Ultimeter is pretty much the only one left that I know of, but 
>>> they start around $400.  It's a bit much.
>>>
>>> I dove into starting to build my own weather station around an ESP32 
>>> that would basically take in simple sensor data (temp, humidity, pressure, 
>>> wind speed and direction) and format into the classic Ultimeter format, but 
>>> I have really not gotten anywhere with it.  Then it dawned on me, WeeWX is 
>>> already bringing this data in, why couldn't it format a $ULTW string and 
>>> spit it back out?  I am looking at a few different AcuRite stations with 
>>> USB interface (mostly what I see listed on the WeeWX list) and I think I 
>>> have settled on the 1036M.  I want to use this station to gather the data, 
>>> feed it to WeeWX on a Pi and have it spit out the $ULTW formatted string on 
>>> the UART pins so I can feed that into a TNC/Tracker for the APRS/packet 
>>> side.  Am I reinventing the wheel?  Has someone already done this?  
>>> Googling didn't really turn anything up.
>>>
>>> A side note, my wife is a meteorologist for NOAA and also an amateur 
>>> radio operator.  She recently got the OK to set up an APRS Weather station 
>>> at her office, so this has kick started me to look for a solution.  I'm a 
>>> radio guy by day, so I have the radio and TNC stuff covered.  It's getting 
>>> the weather data formatted and to the radio that I am stuck on.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help!
>>>
>>> Jason K4APR
>>> www.ke4nyv.com
>>>
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