I've actually played around with an external program that will read a file (WXNOW.TXT) and spit it out to a socket. It would be pretty easy to do that here.
Is there a spec somewhere on the new Davis software (I'm hoping it's compatible with the WMII). Clay Jackson N7QNM > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:41:31AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm new to Xastir and love the software, and I have a question. >> >> With the new APRS Data logger for the Davis weather stations it is no >> longer >> necessary to poll the station for data. Additionally the unit can >> stream >> data in APRS packet format as fast as every minute. The data is >> formatted >> as such: >> >> @151632z3500.03N/10620.88W_267/002g007t070r000p016P000h17b10219.DsVP >> >> Is there any chance of implementing this in Xastir? It would certainly >> take >> the headache out of trying to interface my station with MySql and the >> like. >> Thanks in advance, > > Been talking to Mike about this one. It should be a pretty simple hack > to add this as an interface --- the format is exactly an APRS WX posit > missing > only the call sign and path. It should be pretty easy to do. > > Another option, of course, could be to make a trivial (trivial) external > hack > that does nothing more than provide a TCP port to connect to, then strip > off > all the stuff to the left of the wind direction, and then serve it up to > all > connected clients. This would be basically what the Davis and LaCrosse > external hacks do, but without any of the database access. > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 > http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. > -- Ineffective daily affirmation > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
