On Jan 19, 2008, at 8:50 PM, Chip Griffin wrote:
On Jan 19, 2008, at 20:32, Alex Carver wrote:
Steve can fill in a lot of the details but he's trying to use two
computers with one Ultimeter and doesn't want to split the serial
ports in hardware, instead he's going to try splitting the port by
software.
Here's the current setup:
Weather Display running on an old laptop hooked up to my Ultimeter.
Weather Display currently sets up my weather webpage and uploads it to
my Mac (http://weather.mikeoxlong.net). It also generates a wxnow.txt
file every 5 minutes.
Ui-View running on a second computer which looks for the wxnow.txt
file generated by Weather Display. This is my APRS computer.
My main computer is a Mac. It hosts my webpages, mail server, etc, etc.
I have been successful in building Xastir for the Mac and was hoping
to shutdown the computer which currently runs Ui-View.
Weather Display has been running for 7 years now and it's been
extremely reliable. I started off with an old WX200 and upgraded to
the Ultimeter a couple of years ago.
I currently have no plans to replace Weather Display. All I need is a
way to get the weather from the Weather Display computer into Xastir
on the Mac.
I really don't see a need to pipe a full feed into Xastir but if this
is what it's going to take, then I'll probably have to use a com port
sharing program such as GPSGate.
I was hoping Xastir supported the wxnow.txt file that a lot of other
programs support but apparently it doesn't.
Steve
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