I suppose that one could consider rain to be 100% humidity. 8-}
Maybe you could put a conditional so that if there's no rain, it would display
humidity?
Cheers,
Kurt
On Oct 25, 2010, at 1:59 AM, Ray Wells wrote:
> Success.
>
> I'm now displaying 24 hour rainfall in mm to one decimal place in the place
> previously occupied by humidity.
>
> Ray vk2tv
>
> On 25/10/10 16:30, Ray Wells wrote:
>> 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,
>>>
>>> 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 assumption that
>>> imperial is used), I end up with the following from line 2825 in db.c
>>>
>>> if (!Display_.temperature_only) {
>>> if (strlen(weather->wx_prec_24) > 0) {
>>> xastir_snprintf(wx_tm, sizeof(wx_tm), "R:%.1fmm",
>>> atof(weather->wx_prec_24)*25.4);
>>> strncat(temp_wx_temp,
>>> wx_tm,
>>> sizeof(temp_wx_temp) - 1 - strlen(temp_wx_temp));
>>> }
>>>
>>> Would anybody care to comment about this proposed alteration to db.c to
>>> display 24 hour Rain (R) in lieu of Humidity?
>>>
>>> Ray vk2tv
>>>
>>> On 25/10/10 03:23, Ray Wells wrote:
>>>> 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 broken.
>>>>
>>>> Ray vk2tv
>>>>
>>>> On 25/10/10 01:47, David A Aitcheson wrote:
>>>>> 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 that might be of use.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone else have a better idea?
>>>>>
>>>>> 73
>>>>> Dave
>>>>> KB3EFS
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/24/2010 01:55 AM, Ray Wells wrote:
>>>>>> I'm after some direction.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I run xastir in the studio at the local community (public) radio
>>>>>> station, to provide weather details at regional airports. Xastir runs
>>>>>> under the stations AR Club callsign of VK2WET. Look here to find out
>>>>>> why it's VK2WET - www.tankfm.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like to be able to display total daily rainfall, as available at
>>>>>> the airport sites from our Bureau of Meteorology either, in addition
>>>>>> to the existing displayed items or, as a replacement for humidity. I'm
>>>>>> not a programmer but I'm not adverse to 'having a go" if some kind
>>>>>> soul can point me in the right direction.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ray vk2tv
>>>>
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