I missed the start of this thread. I've been using an Ultimeter with Xastir for many years now. What is the problem, I maybe can help. Regards Victor
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:17:40 -0800 (PST) Alex Carver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 19, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Alex Carver wrote: > > > work. Some of them are commercial so you'll be > > > paying. I think one that's rather popular is > > Franson > > > GPSGate. The Mac only has to run a program called > > > 'socat' which can turn a network connection into a > > > virtual serial port. > > > > Looks like this is the solution for now. Should be > > simple to implement. > > > > Weather Display does offer a server port but I can't > > find what format > > the data is in and Xastir doesn't seem to like it. > > > > Perhaps in the future Xastir will support the > > wxnow.txt file. It > > appears that Winaprs, Ui-view and APRS+SA all > > support it. > > I took a peek in Xastir to see how it supported > weather stations and I see it will either support a > serial port or a network port. Still don't know the > format but I'll need to poke around to figure that > out. > > Not supporting the 'wxnow.txt' file I think is > reasonable. The idea is that Xastir can do a lot of > things on its own without depending too much on > external programs (though it's certainly extensible in > some respects). Having Xastir directly handle reading > from the weather station ensures that some problems > are avoided such as reading a file that's being > written at the same time. It also allows for the > display of the data as it's acquired instead of > waiting for the file to update. > > According to the help file, it currently supports a > Radio Shack type weather station and a specific format > of ASCII as output (presumably by a Peet Brothers > weather station). I don't know what the Ultimeter > puts out for data over the serial port nor do I know > the specifics of the two formats that Xastir > understands. I imagine there may be a way to get the > Ultimeter to work in Xastir with some code changes or > data massaging. > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
