Thanks for that Stephen.? My LaCrosse weather station with Heavy Weather Pro only creates a file named ( currdat.lst ).? There is no window, wx, or anything similar.?? Ui-view wx file needs a ( txt ) file.? I tried WUHU and didn't produce a txt file either but still plugging away...tnx..Kerry
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This has already been explained repeatedly, but here again....
UIview _DOES NOT_ create the WXNOW.TXT file. ? It is not a result of
installing
UIview.? Endlessly re-installing UIview will not magically make it appear.
*WXNOW.TXT has to be created by an external program.* This can be either the
weather station software itself, or a third-party "middle-ware" app that
periodically interrogates the weather station, translates it's
proprietary-format data, and writes it out to the standardized-format?
WXNOW.TXT??? Note that whatever app creates the file, it will periodically
overwrite the file with a new version as the weather readings change.
In turn, UIview periodically looks for and reads the content of WXNOW.TXT, and
sends it over the air. ? You tell UIview where it should look for this file,
but it is up to some other program to create it. (You specify the location of
the WXNOW.TXT in the "Setup", "Setup Weather Station" dialog in UIview.)
The whole reason for this drill is that the author of UIview didn't want to
have to deal with the wide variety of proprietary constantly-changing
weather-station data formats.
Not only are they different between manufacturers; even different models from
the same mfr sometimes output data in different formats. Uiview's author did
not want to waste all his time reverse-engineering weather-data formats for new
models to add to an ever-growing list of specific makes & models inside UIview,
[The growing list of TNC init files for different TNCs and radio models was
enough already!] So he left if to WX station mfrs and/or third parties to
deal
with this and output the standardized WXNOW.TXT file.
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