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Maps And Weather with D-Rats

 

Daryl, your lat long input use a minus sign infront of your longitude ie. -73.1234. This tells the software you are West of Greenwich England.


On Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 17:41 Daryl Stout <wx1der@...> wrote:
I had to do a complete reinstall of Windows 10 to rebuild the registry, as it had gotten severely corrupted. As a result, I was off the air from Sept. 12-20, 2021. So, I had to do a fresh install of BlueDV, and of D-Rats on the system. While I got most everything set up (I don't use D-Rats for sending email or for Winlink; as I use GMail and Winlink Express separately for those), I'm having a problem with the maps and the OpenWeather app.

I entered my api values from for the maps, and from -- but the data is not going out on the weather or the maps, and when I view the maps, it's from someplace overseas...even though I entered my latitude and longitude in the settings.?

If there's a file in here where I could get that info (the older version of D-Rats allowed you to download map tiles, but the current one does not), I'd appreciate it.

Daryl, WX4QZ

 

Hi Daryl,
if you open the log file, at the very beginning there is a line which tells you where is the config file:

Mainapp ? : Enabled debug log for Win32 systems
Version : headers={'User-Agent': 'd-rats/0.3.9 '}
(....)
Qst ? ? ? : FeedParser not available
Qst ? ? ? : QSTWeatherWU class retired
Config ? ?: FILE: C:\Users\mauri\AppData\Roaming\D-RATS-EV\d-rats.config
Mainapp ? : Loading locale `en'
Mainapp ? : Locale dir is: C:\Users\mauri\Desktop\D-Rats-0.3.9\locale
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

you can then edit it or simply rename it to force drats to create a new one from scratch.

if you edit the file, be sure that the thuderforest parameters appear in this format:

keyformapurlcycle = ?apikey=5a1a4a79354244a38707d83969fd88a2

(i.e. the "?apikey=" prefix shall be there)

for the coordinates, these shall be with a dot separator, like:

[user]
name = Maurizio Andreotti
altitude = 0
longitude = 9.430000
units = Metric
callsign = IZ2LXI
latitude = 45.802020

hope this helps
best regards,
maurizio
 

I had to do a complete reinstall of Windows 10 to rebuild the registry, as it had gotten severely corrupted. As a result, I was off the air from Sept. 12-20, 2021. So, I had to do a fresh install of BlueDV, and of D-Rats on the system. While I got most everything set up (I don't use D-Rats for sending email or for Winlink; as I use GMail and Winlink Express separately for those), I'm having a problem with the maps and the OpenWeather app.

I entered my api values from thunderforest.com for the maps, and from openweather.org -- but the data is not going out on the weather or the maps, and when I view the maps, it's from someplace overseas...even though I entered my latitude and longitude in the settings.?

If there's a file in here where I could get that info (the older version of D-Rats allowed you to download map tiles, but the current one does not), I'd appreciate it.

Daryl, WX4QZ

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