Confirming all is working correctly on Ubuntu 14.04-?-LTS Thank You Tom!
73 Dave KB3EFS On 12/29/19 1:35 PM, Tom Russo wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 11:15:33AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: >> 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. > Or not. Found the spot where things were being done wrong, and it was indeed > the result of a broken cleanup of compiler warnings in the alerts code. The > fix should be on github as of now. > >> 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 >> -- >> 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
