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One entry that most miss when setting up The WX Station Setup is that setting for Max age (min) must be set to zero 0. That was never fixed by Roger. He knew about it though. I still find UI-View 32 to be a super APRS program.?
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73 Bill, W1GTT?Chapin, SC "A diversity of modes is essential?to an effective EMCOMM system"! On Sunday, May 23, 2021, 12:54 AM, WA8LMF via groups.io <wa8lmf@...> wrote:
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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen H. Smith??? wa8lmf (at) aol.com Skype:??????? WA8LMF EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band] Home Page:????????? -- APRS over FLdigi Modes? -- ?? <> 60-Meter APRS!?? HF NVIS APRS Igate Now Operating ?? <> Flying Digipeater! ?? <> 11 Copies of UIview in Action on One Computer! Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps ?? <> |
