I'm not too savvy in the programming world...I kludge my way through it. I'm running SuSE 11.1. I guess I didn't really clarify what I was meaning when I said the -b option didn't work... the program doesn't recognize the option -b not that it won't rename it
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Clay Jackson Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 7:05 PM To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: Re: [Xastir] db2APRS I'd be completely amazed and flabbergasted if it did work; as I said, the code is very specific about having the database tables be meteo specific. I just sent Andreas (Meteo author) a set of perl scripts to do WeatherUnderground from Meteo - if you're interested in those let me know and I can send you a copy. What OS/distro are you using? Clay On Jan 31, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Barrie McConnell wrote: > Yes I realize that it was setup for Meteo. Wview also uses a mysql > database, > the default db name in db2APRS is Meteo, the -b option allows you to > change > the db name but it doesn't work. I like Wview as you can also output > to > Weather Underground and Weatherforyou. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Clay Jackson > Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 5:55 PM > To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion > Subject: Re: [Xastir] db2APRS > > I think there may be some confusion here - db2APRS is (at least in > this incarnation) is really meteo/Davis specific. The -b option just > changes the name of the MySQL database that it looks at for the data. > The data still has to be in a MySQL database, with the sdata table > that meteo generates/loads. > > I'm pretty sure that Wview uses a different table structure - > unfortunately, since I have a WMII and not a Vantage, I can't test it. > > I do have a different set of code (being 'alpha' tested now); that > takes a WXNOW.TXT file (2 lines, ala the one created by > WeatherDisplay) and writes an aprs formatted record to a socket, so > that might be an alternative. I'm also playing with a set of code > that will take an XML METAR feed and emit an aprs weather string. > > Clay Jackson > N7QNM > > > On Jan 31, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Barrie McConnell wrote: > >> I have tried to use the -b option to change the database and the >> program >> says that it is not a valid option. Has anybody had any success with >> this? >> >> Also has anybody tried to use Wview in lieu of Meteo with any >> success. I am >> wondering if the database fields are the same etc? >> >> >> >> Barrie McConnell >> >> KA8UPW >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xastir mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir >> > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
