Interesting. Let me make sure I understand your concept.
You want YAAC to collect the data from multiple weather stations and export the current weather data from each one into a separate wxnow.txt file. Some other program downstream will then consume the multiple wxnow.txt files.
This could be done, although I wouldn't want to put it in core YAAC, but in a plugin. But why can't the downstream Tweet-generating consumer collect the APRS packets from the multiple weather stations directly? It seems a bit kludgy to have an extra program and data drop-point. There are enough APRS libraries out there that you could write a simple program to pull only weather data from the APRS-IS backbone and convert to Twitter (if you can't get to APRS-IS, you wouldn't be able to get to Twitter either). I'm assuming the reason you want YAAC to do it is so you don't have to "re-invent the square wheel" regarding APRS-IS protocol and decoding both position and weather data and associating them with specific stations (i.e., the data analysis back-end features of YAAC).
Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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I had asked in the past about sending weather alerts to Twitter and I now understand the problems with that. At the same time Andrew mentioned his caution about trying to make YAAC a universal solution. That made a lot of sense to me.
So I'm working on a solution that solves both of these problems:
My remote wx/digipeater(s) sends to YAAC . The weather alert plugin would continue to show the weather at multiple sites. But it would also output a wxnow.txt file in local directory of (raspberry's) webserver: /var/www/html/remotewx1/ ... /remotewx2/ ...
One of the extension programmers working on Meteobridge is taking the wxnow.txt file off of the server as a weather station input. With that I'll be able to create my triggers and send to numerous services, including Twitter.
Do you think this is possible to add this function?
