So TW gets it, Brian gets it and I still have no clue.

73, Larry  WB8LBZ
El Paso, TX

James has it pretty straight, but you're looking for software that can create a wxnow.txt file.  That is the primary interface for weather stations to APRS, and the only one supported by APRSIS32.

aprsisce.wikidot.com/doc:weather-stations

https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Wxnow.txt

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

On 4/29/2021 2:10 AM, James Ewen wrote:

You have the wrong equipment according to what little information you provide and what others are assuming. 

If there is no way to get the data from your weather station into a computer running a program that will create a weathernow.txt  file, then there will be nothing for APRSISCE/32 to ingest and send out. 

APRSISCE/32 needs access to the weather data. If it can’t access the weather data, then there will be no APRS weather beacon.  

You need to integrate both the weather station and APRSISCE/32 to make this work. 

If there is a way to get your weather station to create the appropriate file on the computer running APRSISCE/32, then get that set up and working and away you go. 

You know what you have for equipment, dig into your manual and find out if you can get the information required to APRSISCE/32. 

It’s always a good idea to figure out what you want to do, then do some research to determine what equipment you need to reach that goal, then buy the equipment and implement the plan. 

Buying parts and then trying to make it do something it isn’t intended to do can be a challenge. 

I don’t know specifically if your equipment is capable of doing what you need. 

However, if you can see all the information you need on a web page, I would suspect that one could create some web scraping scripts that run on a cron job to scrape the data and create the required output and save it into a file. 

It’s a bit of a work around to get the job done, but it might be a way to make what you have fit the bill if it can’t be done any other way. 

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. 

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 11:24 PM Larry Springsteen via groups.io <wb8lbz=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

So TW gets it, Brian gets it and I still have no clue.

73, Larry  WB8LBZ
El Paso, TX

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James
VE6SRV

I was writing the reply on my phone, and couldn’t go back in the previous email to look up the name of the file... I didn’t want to lose the email I was creating, so guessed at the name. 

Other than that, Larry should be able to do some research into his equipment to figure out where to go from here. 

Thanks for the correction Lynn!

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 5:04 AM Lynn Deffenbaugh <kj4erj@...> wrote:

James has it pretty straight, but you're looking for software that can create a wxnow.txt file.  That is the primary interface for weather stations to APRS, and the only one supported by APRSIS32.

aprsisce.wikidot.com/doc:weather-stations

https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Wxnow.txt

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

On 4/29/2021 2:10 AM, James Ewen wrote:

You have the wrong equipment according to what little information you provide and what others are assuming. 

If there is no way to get the data from your weather station into a computer running a program that will create a weathernow.txt  file, then there will be nothing for APRSISCE/32 to ingest and send out. 

APRSISCE/32 needs access to the weather data. If it can’t access the weather data, then there will be no APRS weather beacon.  

You need to integrate both the weather station and APRSISCE/32 to make this work. 

If there is a way to get your weather station to create the appropriate file on the computer running APRSISCE/32, then get that set up and working and away you go. 

You know what you have for equipment, dig into your manual and find out if you can get the information required to APRSISCE/32. 

It’s always a good idea to figure out what you want to do, then do some research to determine what equipment you need to reach that goal, then buy the equipment and implement the plan. 

Buying parts and then trying to make it do something it isn’t intended to do can be a challenge. 

I don’t know specifically if your equipment is capable of doing what you need. 

However, if you can see all the information you need on a web page, I would suspect that one could create some web scraping scripts that run on a cron job to scrape the data and create the required output and save it into a file. 

It’s a bit of a work around to get the job done, but it might be a way to make what you have fit the bill if it can’t be done any other way. 

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. 

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 11:24 PM Larry Springsteen via groups.io <wb8lbz=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

So TW gets it, Brian gets it and I still have no clue.

73, Larry  WB8LBZ
El Paso, TX

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James
VE6SRV

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James
VE6SRV

For reference the Weatherflow devices broadcast their data on UDP port 50223, I use Node-Red to capture the data stream and post it up APRS.  I will admit I have not finished the implementation for correct rainfall totals, but the temp, humidity, wind direction & speed work well.  Hopefully this steers you in the right direction for your integration.

KC5DFC

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 8:37 AM James Ewen <ve6srv@...> wrote:

I was writing the reply on my phone, and couldn’t go back in the previous email to look up the name of the file... I didn’t want to lose the email I was creating, so guessed at the name. 

Other than that, Larry should be able to do some research into his equipment to figure out where to go from here. 

Thanks for the correction Lynn!

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 5:04 AM Lynn Deffenbaugh <kj4erj@...> wrote:

James has it pretty straight, but you're looking for software that can create a wxnow.txt file.  That is the primary interface for weather stations to APRS, and the only one supported by APRSIS32.

aprsisce.wikidot.com/doc:weather-stations

https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Wxnow.txt

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

On 4/29/2021 2:10 AM, James Ewen wrote:

You have the wrong equipment according to what little information you provide and what others are assuming. 

If there is no way to get the data from your weather station into a computer running a program that will create a weathernow.txt  file, then there will be nothing for APRSISCE/32 to ingest and send out. 

APRSISCE/32 needs access to the weather data. If it can’t access the weather data, then there will be no APRS weather beacon.  

You need to integrate both the weather station and APRSISCE/32 to make this work. 

If there is a way to get your weather station to create the appropriate file on the computer running APRSISCE/32, then get that set up and working and away you go. 

You know what you have for equipment, dig into your manual and find out if you can get the information required to APRSISCE/32. 

It’s always a good idea to figure out what you want to do, then do some research to determine what equipment you need to reach that goal, then buy the equipment and implement the plan. 

Buying parts and then trying to make it do something it isn’t intended to do can be a challenge. 

I don’t know specifically if your equipment is capable of doing what you need. 

However, if you can see all the information you need on a web page, I would suspect that one could create some web scraping scripts that run on a cron job to scrape the data and create the required output and save it into a file. 

It’s a bit of a work around to get the job done, but it might be a way to make what you have fit the bill if it can’t be done any other way. 

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. 

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 11:24 PM Larry Springsteen via groups.io <wb8lbz=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

So TW gets it, Brian gets it and I still have no clue.

73, Larry  WB8LBZ
El Paso, TX

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James
VE6SRV

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James
VE6SRV

The way the data gets to the internet and/or the CWOP servers is by the contents of a file called wxnow.txt being either broadcast over the air by an APRS station and that data getting fed via an APRS gateway through the APRS internet stream OR your own home station/software package sends the data to a server on the internet directly.

 

Does your weather station produce a file called wxnow.txt? If not it is very unlikely that you will be able to broadcast your weather data over the air to other APRS stations. Most APRS software has standardized on using that particular file. Your weather station and/or it’s associated software on your computer has to be able to produce that file and then your APRS software has to know where on your computer that file exists.

 

So somehow the weather data from your particular weather station has to push the data. These groups don’t send out the full email thread so I can’t look back to see which weather station you said you are using. There are not many if any at this point APRS software packages that have a plug and play option to connect to a weather station and have it just work. Just about everyone I have looked at require some sort of middleware software setup and configuration.

 

Not all weather stations or even their companion software produce the wxnow.txt file. If they do they are usually the more expensive stations and software packages.

 

Brian N2KGC

 

From: APRSISCE@groups.io [mailto:APRSISCE@groups.io] On Behalf Of Larry Springsteen via groups.io
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2021 1:24 AM
To: APRSISCE@groups.io
Subject: Re: [APRSISCE] New weather station to APRS

 

So TW gets it, Brian gets it and I still have no clue.

73, Larry  WB8LBZ
El Paso, TX