Hi, I just pushed a patch that provides functionality for more than one METAR in the property tree. This patch also provides the magnetic variation for the reporting station exposed to a property.
For backwards compatibility, the METAR for the nearest airport still live under /environment/metar. This report is pulled from NOAA on a regular schedule. I have configured eight additional sets of METAR properties, they live under /environment/metar[1] ..to.. /environment/metar[6] /environment/metar[10] /environment/metar[11] each of them share the same behaviour: everytime, the associated property "time-to-live" is zero, a report for the station named in the property "station-id" is requested from NOAA, parsed and written to the corresponding properties for that station. My idea is to have the /environment/metar indexes [1..6] to be used for ATIS weather. A system (still to be created) should check the currently selected radio frequencies, find the associated airport and write that airport id to it's corresponding "station-id", along with "set time-to-live" set to zero and "valid" set to false. The realwx system now schedules a http request, tries to parse the response, fills all properties and sets "valid" to true. The report will be reloaded every time, the property "time-to-live" gets zero. This property counts down automatically. The metar indeces 10 and up are for "user-defined" weather systems, like the local-weather and can be used for lateral weather interpolation and alike. All these modifications should not change the current behaviour of the live- weather system. If it does, it's a bug! I hope, this prepares the ground for a more realistic weather system and correct ATIS report for the tuned station. Happy new year, everybody! Torsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
