Great!!! Keep in mind its holiday season!!!
Thanks Tom!!! On Sun, 2019-12-29 at 11:15 -0700, Tom Russo wrote: > It looks like some of the work cleaning up compiler warnings resulted > in > broken code to concatenate strings. > > I'm looking into it. It may take a while. > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 11:08:32AM -0700, we recorded a bogon- > computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > > In a recent message, Apostolos Kefalas asked: > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I am on Xastir v2.1.3 (6884c6f9) and now I have noticed that the > > weather alert list (View -> Weather Alerts) is not showing all the > > data. > > > > I remember in older versions of Xastir we could see the type of > > alert, > > expiration time and area codes. > > > > Happy New Year to All > > > > Apostolos, SV1LJJ > > > > ---- > > > > It looks suspiciously like something has changed in the data coming > > in related > > to weather alerts, and xastir is improperly parsing it. > > > > For example, a quick view of my net feed shows this packet coming > > in: > > > > UNRWSW>APRS,TCPIP,qAO,WE7U-WX::NWS-WARN > > :300100z,WINTER_WEATHER,SDZ14-31-32-41>44 {THj1D > > > > But all that shows up in the weather alerts box is: > > > > UNRWSW THj1D NWS-WARN z > > > > Somehow that incoming data is not properly being parsed > > anymore. Most of the > > alerts I find in my wx alerts dialog look like this, with a few > > extra > > adornments, like: > > > > ABRWSW T3Y4B NWS-WARN 03 @z > > > > Very, very few have full data, but some do: > > SGFFLS 10020 NWS_ADVIS 01 @0000z ==> 03 @0224z NI MO_C185 FLOOD > > > > Whether this is a change in the incoming data formatting or > > something broken > > in Xastir's code is another question. Looks like we need a deep > > dive into > > the alert parsing code to see if there are changes necessary. The > > alert code > > has not had meaningful changes in a very long time. There was some > > effort > > to eliminate compiler warnings in 2017 and again earlier this year, > > but those > > should not have changed functionality. > > > > However, Xastir does have an NWS-TEST.log file that we're supposed > > to be > > able to read in and get alerts, and when I read it in it shows up > > as garbled > > alerts just like the new ones have. > > > > Interestingly enough, though, when I read in NWS-TEST.log the > > alerts do show > > up on the map. The data is just missing in the alert dialog box. > > > > So it looks like something got mangled in the code where data is > > parsed out > > for display in the dialog, but there is enough information getting > > decoded to > > display it on the map. > > > > > > -- > > Tom Russo KM5VY > > Tijeras, NM > > > > echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] > > [n-z][a-m] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Xastir mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
