Well, I just now saw this thread - but, if you read Xastir-DEV, I did just that a week or so ago (invalidated the weather if the port goes red). For my next trick, I've started a fairly major rewrite/consolidation of WX.C (there are at least two places I found that parse/set up APRS WX packets) - that's gonna take some time; but it's coming along. I'm definitely going to put some messages (along with sanity checks) in for things like missing fields; as well as an "aging" function that will allow the user to select a limit on how old a weather report they want to still transmit.
I'm also going to add "Weather File" functionality, so that Xastir can directly read/parse a "wxnow" file from Weather Display; and possibly also a Weather XML file from meteo (which would eliminate the need for DB2APRS, AND allow any XML file to be fed to Xastir. Clay N7QNM ======== On Nov 16, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Eric Christensen wrote: > >> How about disabling weather packets when the weather port goes red? > > Cheater! > > Yea, that might be a rather quick way of getting part of the desired > functionality. It should work for the times when the weather > station just stops talking, but won't work for the times when one or > more of the sensors go bad and the station nulls out those fields > (much less common of course). > > What do you think Clay? > > -- > Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> > APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> > Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown > Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. > The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > _______________________________________________ > 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
