I wrote a script last night which emails me once an hour if the weather alert program falls over. This should help to keep weather alert processing going long-term.
I'm also working to set up a second weather alert processing VM "out there" for redundancy, geographically separated from the first. That will happen but it might be a month or two until it is operational. On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 3:04 PM Curt Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep. Should be permanent. They went away while I was recuperating from > some broken bones last summer and I didn't notice. When it was pointed out > to me some months later I couldn't find any feeds, now I have four. I just > found out the feeds go in a round-robin fashion and don't all pull at once > so I'm going to enable all four tonight. > > I'm toying with the idea of erecting a similar setup on a geographically > remote VM from the first: Both could feed APRS-IS and Firenet at once. > Redundancy. I haven't asked for permission to hand another server off the > feeds yet but the data I'm pulling is low-bandwidth so chances are good if > I ask nicely. > > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 2:58 PM Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thank you Curt! I did notice some alerts recently and was hoping they >> were back and not just temporarily. >> >> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32 >> >> >> On 4/1/2019 3:40 PM, Curt Mills wrote: >> > I have weather alert feeds again! I have access to four identical feeds >> > with three currently enabled and feeding my scripts. I finally managed >> to >> > verify that they are going out by receiving them on my Xastir screen at >> > work.Thanks to Gerry Creager and a buddy of his for helping me get raw >> > feeds again! >> > >> > If you have the proper maps loaded into Xastir and have weather alert >> > display enabled in the Xastir menus, these alerts will light up warning >> > areas on your map automatically. >> > >> > Note: There are two of us dumping weather alerts out to APRS-IS and/or >> > Firenet. We each decided to process different things, and we did >> entirely >> > different development of our programs/scripts between us (no >> coordination). >> > More than likely you'll never notice an absence of _all_ WX alerts, but >> > some important ones for you might be missing if either of the wx alert >> > processors is down at any given time. Hopefully that won't occur again >> for >> > a long while. >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xastir mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir >> > > > -- > Curt, WE7U http://we7u.wetnet.net > http://www.sarguydigital.com > -- Curt, WE7U http://we7u.wetnet.net http://www.sarguydigital.com _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
