Thanks Andrew,
Some people get a little upset when others post about other programs in groups like this, so I appreciate it. I do kind of see it as a companion app to YAAC and totally understand having to watch out on making it universal, otherwise it does get way to out of hand. I was getting to that point with APRSNotify and had to step back LOL¡. I want to do all the things but it¡¯s too much!
Have a great one!
Jeff
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On Jan 7, 2021, at 1:56 PM, Andrew P. <andrewemt@...> wrote:
Hey, Jeff.
Go right ahead with your plug. It's not like your program is trying to destroy my program. It simply performs a different function than mine, so it's more complementary than competitive.
I have to watch out for trying to make YAAC a "universal" solution. Otherwise I'll end up with unmaintainable bloatware like Microsoft Office, with tons of unnecessary and/or annoying "features" most users don't want or need clogging up the application and introducing extra bugs. That's why I came up with the plugin concept for YAAC, so extra features that not everyone needs could still be available without impact to users that don't need those extra features.
Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Jeff Lehman, N8ACL via groups.io <n8acl@...>
Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2021 11:44 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] YAAC feature requests
I believe I've asked about this before:
In addition to email and texts, could we also send alerts to Twitter?
I'm no java expert, but it looks like this would work:
Bill I can offer a solution for this one. I have a python application I built/am developing called APRSNotify. It currently sends parsed position packets to Telegram and Twitter, but I am putting the finishing touches on Ver. 4 which will include pushing to Mastodon as well.
I just took a peek at the APRS.fi<> API and it is possible to pull Weather Data for a station as well from the API. AS long as your weather station is getting the packet to the APRS-IS, this would work for you.
I never thought about adding a way to parse Weather Data, but this is certainly something I can look at adding. It makes sense and would be a really cool data point addition to the script.
You can set the script to run as often as you want, but I have mine set to every 10 minutes for my position data. There is a limit on the number of requests that cane be sent to the api, so I have found every 10 minutes is a good amount.
If you want to take a look at the current version (3.1) You can look at
Also you can see what it looks like on Twitter at @n8acl_aprs
Keep in mind I am making some changes, so if you do want to use it, Give me a little longer to finish up the application and also include weather data parsing and get it pushed up there.
On my list of possible future upgrades I am considering and researching is being able to parse from something like Direwolf or something for local RF Traffic.
Sorry, I hope this doesn¡¯t look like a shameless plug, but I just thought it was a possible solution for at least one of your pain points for now.
Jeff, N8ACL
On Jan 7, 2021, at 11:29 AM, Bill WA4OPQ <wa4opq@...<mailto:wa4opq@...>> wrote:
Most of my requests are due to my remote solar powered station, with a Pi Zero running aprx. I'm impressed how well YAAC receives the weather and telemetry from it.
I have the weather alert plugin working well, as well as the email plugin. I set up a test config and received an email when the wind speed arose.
So my first request for consideration is this:
Rather than just the wind and rain readings, could we have all of the standard CWOP readings available to work with? I'd like to report when it's freezing, high humidity, etc.
Which leads to my second request for consideration:
Instead of a time limit to reset an alarm, could you implement a second "reset" setting? For example, if I had a temp alarm at 95 degrees, it wouldn't reset until it cooled to, say, 75 degrees. That way I could also have an alarm at 85 degrees that didn't reset until it cooled to 65 degrees or so. There's no way I could have these two alarms with a timed reset.
I believe I've asked about this before:
In addition to email and texts, could we also send alerts to Twitter?
I'm no java expert, but it looks like this would work:
So here's why I ask. I have two (soon three) stations using Meteobridge sending to Twitter. I'd like to add more using YAAC. Here is my Twitter feed:
And I have one more consideration. unrelated to the others.
On the View - Raw Packets display could you add a way to easily distinguish packets from RF and packets from APRS-IS, perhaps color coding?
There are times that I glance from across the room at YAAC and I would find it helpful
Thank you for you time and dedication. It is very much appreciated.
73,
Bill
