Sorry, I know that I had volunteered to help, but I have been kind of completely swamped.
So if I understand the problem correctly, we are trying to address the discrepancies in the four rain categories collected by Xastir. I have noticed that there is often a few hundredths of an inch difference one way or another in the numbers. Here it is not unusual for two spots a mile a way from each other, or even less, to have differences in rain totals between .5 and an inch, so I guess that we do not split hairs over a few hundredths with our own numbers. I have also noticed that my Davis Vantage Pro does not do a good job of keeping time. In fact right now, it is almost an hour off and I need to adjust it again. Maybe that is part of the discrepancy problem? So time permitting this weekend, I will try to do a CVS update and see what happens. Dean KD4TWJ >________________________________ > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:27:18 -0600 >From: Tom Russo <[email protected]> >To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <[email protected]> >Subject: [Xastir] Davis, Lacrosse weather code modified, need testers. >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 02:46:52PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron >collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: >> What I'm thinking is that the Meteo (and LaCrosse) code should be modified >> to emit the total rain (so Xastir can display total rain), but that >> Meteo/Lacrosse and Davis APRS Data Logger code should be modified so that >> Xastir uses th 24-hour, since-midnight, and 1-hour data the station provides >> directly without overwriting it. I don't even think it will be that much >> work, >> just a matter of maintaining a flag that says "the data in these strings >> should not be recomputed." > >I have just committed a change to wx.c and database.h that should fix the >transmission of incorrect rain rates by Xastir when using Davis or LaCrosse >weather stations. > >Rather than modifying the db2aprs programs (Davis Meteo and Lacrosse), I have >taken the approach that since db2aprs (and the Lacrosse version) already >provides 24-hour and last-hour rain data, that Xastir should not overwrite >these. Further, I have set the code up so that Davis APRS Data Logger >rain rates are used directly, instead of being overwritten with incorrectly >computed values. > >I have already sent this change in private email to Mike, but ask that all >Xastir users that have weather stations do a CVS update and check that I have >not broken Xastir's handling of their own weather station (this change is >supposed to have ZERO impact on stations other than Davis or Lacrosse). > >Mike, you needn't bother applying the patch I sent you if you just do a >CVS update, as I already committed the change. > >-- >Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ >Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM >"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is >one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, >oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick > >----------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
