I should have mentioned I have permission for that second raw feed already. Just waiting on the VM to be created now before I can really start work.
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 7:52 AM Curt Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Curt, WE7U http://we7u.wetnet.net http://www.sarguydigital.com _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
