On Jan 19, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
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).
I'm not sure how to respond to this.
I don't need Xastir to interface to my weather station. I've already
got a program that handles the data from my weather station quite
well. It puts it in a nice format for uploading to my webpage,
generates weather report emails every 60 minutes from 8am to 10pm and
alerts me when certain limits are exceeded. It can also generate a
simple text file every so many minutes that many APRS clients can read.
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.
Over all the years I've run Ui-View and Weather Display, that's never
been an issue.
It also allows for the display of the data as it's acquired instead of
waiting for the file to update.
That would be great if I was continuously transmitting but I'm not.
I'm also worried about Xastir being tied down with a constant stream
of traffic from the internet as well as a weather station. I guess
I'll have to see how badly it lags when I start feeding it the stream
using GPSGate.
Another solution is to see what's involved in adding the code in
myself. Could be an interesting project.
Steve
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