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Re: Missing lake in front of my house
My thoughts are: it's really really hard to slice up a vector map with filled areas into lots of smaller vector maps with correctly sliced filled areas, which is what the YAAC OSM map importer does. And it still has bugs in it. Half a dozen builds ago of YAAC, you didn't even have water in front of your house. :-) I'm still trying to fix the importer algorithms to handle large squiggly-edged bodies of water that span multiple 1x1-degree tiles. It's better than it was, but still not correct.
Andrew, KA2DDO author of YAAC |
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Missing lake in front of my house
Hi Andrew
I live in the vicinity of East Lake Ontario Canada and the lake is missing from the YAAC map , instead of the lake there is a white space.? The coordinates of the lake are?43.9189° N, 77.2003° W.?? Also, going right through the words Prince Edward Count on the YAAC map is a blue band which should not be there.? I have checked the same location on Openstreetmap.org and the map features for the same location are correct on the openstreetmap site, indicating that the source of the data is correct.? ?Could it be that these errors were introduced during the transition to the yaac map? I would appreciate your thoughts on what could be done here.? If you give me step by step directions, I could also make the map tiles from the original as I have a fast internet connection.? Thanks. Joe VA3JLF |
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Re: WX station question
Thanks for investigating Andrew! I checked the Weathercat documentation and there doesn't appear to be anyway of changing the format unfortunately, it seems to be tied to the CWOP service Bob On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:50 AM Andrew P. <andrewemt@...> wrote: Yes, it does indicate a syntax error. The specified format of the WXNOW.TXT file (that YAAC knows about, anyway, according to the Cumulus application's documentation) is a two-line file. The first line contains the date/time of the weather sample in the format |
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Re: WX station question
Yes, it does indicate a syntax error. The specified format of the WXNOW.TXT file (that YAAC knows about, anyway, according to the Cumulus application's documentation) is a two-line file. The first line contains the date/time of the weather sample in the format
MMM dd yyyy HH:mm Not sure whether that is local time or GMT, but YAAC interprets it as local time. The second line is the APRS packet starting at the wind direction (for your sample, at the "051/004" text), without the position, timestamp, or APRS-IS third-party header. If I need to support this format as well, I can add that in a future build of YAAC. Andrew, KA2DDO author of YAAC ________________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Bob Evans <bob9750@...> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 10:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [yaac-users] WX station question Thanks for getting back to me so fast! I am using the wxnow file generated by Weathercat and I selected the location using the port update screen in YACC /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/WCWeb/WXNOW.txt I'm also using the latest build #148 26Mar2020 Just checked the error log and it shows the following: Mon Apr 13 10:15:48 EDT 2020: WxPoller unable to read weather due to: java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "FW6940>APRS,TCPIP*:@131415z4208.54N/07137.00W_051/004g016t056r023p037P038h92b10145WeatherCatV244B2H31" at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:366) at org.ka2ddo.yaac.io.WxnowTxtConnector$WxPoller.run(WxnowTxtConnector.java:99) at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:555) at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:505) Mon Apr 13 10:15:48 EDT 2020: port WXNOW.TXT: /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/WCWeb/WXNOW.txt failed Does this indicate that it's a problem with the Weathercat format? Bob On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:10 AM Andrew P. <andrewemt@...<mailto:andrewemt@...>> wrote: OK, which weather port driver are you using inside YAAC? The Serial_Weather port type can only be used with Peet Bros weather stations, and requires exclusive use of the serial port connected to the weather station (i.e., the same serial port can't also be used by WeatherCat or any other application). If you are using the WXNOW.TXT port driver in YAAC (what you should be using in your case), did you configure the port to the correct location where WeatherCat is storing the WXNOW.TXT file? The orange button on the toolbar indicates an error in the port, possibly due to not being able to find the file. It can also be due to a file access collision where YAAC tries to read the file while WeatherCat is updating it. If that is the cause, update to the latest build of YAAC; I recently put a fix in to deal with file access collisions. Hope this helps. Andrew, KA2DDO author of YAAC ________________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Bob Evans <bob9750@...<mailto:bob9750@...>> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 9:50 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [yaac-users] WX station question Hi Andrew I have been using YAAC for several years and it is a great program and really appreciate all fo your work. My system is usually just connected to the internet and no RF. Recently I decided to connect it to my weather station and enabled the WXNOW.txt functionality. I am using a Davis Vantage with Weathercat software on OSX, I subscribed to CWOP and have a weather station ID of FW6940 and that works fine, if I go to aprs.fi<> and search for FW6940 I can see the charts etc. However, if I look for ab2ne-1 I see the wx station symbol but no weather data, when I look at other local stations e.g. KC1AJT-13 in YAAC I see the wind speed arrow and the icons showing rain etc The port for the WX in YAAC is enabled although the icon is yellow and my wxnow.txt file is: FW6940>APRS,TCPIP*:@131329z4208.54N/07137.00W_236/004g017t056r000p026P026h92b10152WeatherCatV244B2H31 I did try changing the ID for the wxnow file to AB2NE-1 and that did show some data, but I don't think that was going via YAAC but rather via CWOP. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks Bob AB2NE |
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Re: WX station question
Thanks for?getting back to me so fast! I am using the wxnow file generated by Weathercat and I selected the location using the port update screen in YACC /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/WCWeb/WXNOW.txt I'm also using the latest build #148 26Mar2020 Just checked the error log and it shows the following: Mon Apr 13 10:15:48 EDT 2020: WxPoller unable to read weather due to: java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "FW6940>APRS,TCPIP*:@131415z4208.54N/07137.00W_051/004g016t056r023p037P038h92b10145WeatherCatV244B2H31" at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:366) at org.ka2ddo.yaac.io.WxnowTxtConnector$WxPoller.run(WxnowTxtConnector.java:99) at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:555) at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:505) Mon Apr 13 10:15:48 EDT 2020: port WXNOW.TXT: /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/WCWeb/WXNOW.txt failed Does this indicate?that it's a problem with the Weathercat format? Bob On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:10 AM Andrew P. <andrewemt@...> wrote: OK, which weather port driver are you using inside YAAC? The Serial_Weather port type can only be used with Peet Bros weather stations, and requires exclusive use of the serial port connected to the weather station (i.e., the same serial port can't also be used by WeatherCat or any other application). |
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Re: WX station question
OK, which weather port driver are you using inside YAAC? The Serial_Weather port type can only be used with Peet Bros weather stations, and requires exclusive use of the serial port connected to the weather station (i.e., the same serial port can't also be used by WeatherCat or any other application).
If you are using the WXNOW.TXT port driver in YAAC (what you should be using in your case), did you configure the port to the correct location where WeatherCat is storing the WXNOW.TXT file? The orange button on the toolbar indicates an error in the port, possibly due to not being able to find the file. It can also be due to a file access collision where YAAC tries to read the file while WeatherCat is updating it. If that is the cause, update to the latest build of YAAC; I recently put a fix in to deal with file access collisions. Hope this helps. Andrew, KA2DDO author of YAAC ________________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Bob Evans <bob9750@...> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 9:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [yaac-users] WX station question Hi Andrew I have been using YAAC for several years and it is a great program and really appreciate all fo your work. My system is usually just connected to the internet and no RF. Recently I decided to connect it to my weather station and enabled the WXNOW.txt functionality. I am using a Davis Vantage with Weathercat software on OSX, I subscribed to CWOP and have a weather station ID of FW6940 and that works fine, if I go to aprs.fi and search for FW6940 I can see the charts etc. However, if I look for ab2ne-1 I see the wx station symbol but no weather data, when I look at other local stations e.g. KC1AJT-13 in YAAC I see the wind speed arrow and the icons showing rain etc The port for the WX in YAAC is enabled although the icon is yellow and my wxnow.txt file is: FW6940>APRS,TCPIP*:@131329z4208.54N/07137.00W_236/004g017t056r000p026P026h92b10152WeatherCatV244B2H31 I did try changing the ID for the wxnow file to AB2NE-1 and that did show some data, but I don't think that was going via YAAC but rather via CWOP. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks Bob AB2NE |
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WX station question
Hi Andrew
I have been using YAAC for several years and it is a great program and really appreciate all fo your work. My system is usually just connected to the internet and no RF. Recently I decided to connect it to my weather station and enabled the WXNOW.txt functionality. I am using a Davis Vantage with Weathercat software on OSX, I subscribed to CWOP and have a weather station ID of FW6940 and that works fine, if I go to aprs.fi and search for FW6940 I can see the charts etc. However, if I look for ab2ne-1 I see the wx station symbol but no weather data, when I look at other local stations e.g. KC1AJT-13 in YAAC I see the wind speed arrow and the icons showing rain etc The port for the WX in YAAC is enabled although the icon is yellow and my wxnow.txt file is: FW6940>APRS,TCPIP*:@131329z4208.54N/07137.00W_236/004g017t056r000p026P026h92b10152WeatherCatV244B2H31 I did try changing the ID for the wxnow file to AB2NE-1 and that did show some data, but I don't think that was going via YAAC but rather via CWOP. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks Bob AB2NE |
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Re: Coordinates and station location in the map
Greetings.
From your description and my doing a test run on the whatsmygps.com website, are you sure that your QTH's exact location is what they came up with? I typed in my address (including the street name and house number), and got a different segment of the street in my village, rather than the exact location of my house, as if they ignored the street name and house number of my address, or got confused because the street name is used in several discontiguous places. Their satellite map image actually showed the location of the middle school over a kilometer from my house. Another possibility is that you're using the wrong units to enter your latitude and longitude. APRS uses a standardized format called DDMM.MM (or degrees and fractional minutes). It specifically does _not_ use degrees/minutes/seconds (typical GPS device display format) or fractional degrees (such as whatsmygps.com reports). Although you can change preferences in YAAC to display and enter coordinates in those formats/units, they will be translated to DDMM.MM format before transmission in APRS packets. My suggestion for easy data entry is to download the OpenStreetMap data for the region around your QTH, pan and zoom in enough so you can precisely see the street location of your station (relative to nearby intersections, curves in the road, etc.), then right-click on the map where your home is, and pick the "Move Home Here" popup menu choice. Once you confirm the change, YAAC will copy the coordinates of where you right-clicked as the new fixed location of your station. If you have an actual GPS receiver, you can confirm that the same coordinates were returned. Another thing to confirm is if the OpenStreetMap data is actually correct for your area. Since it is entered by crowd-sourcing, it is entirely possible that the person doing the data entry made an error, or used incorrect source data. You might need to get a GPS receiver and an OpenStreetMap account and correct your local data, in which case I would pick up the changes a week or so later when I download another snapshot of the world-wide OpenStreetMap dataset and reprocess it into YAAC format. I did enter your address as provided on QRZ.com into both maps.google.com and and got similar-looking maps, but I have no way to confirm that either are correct or accurately placed (or that I didn't get the wrong town with the same name elsewhere in your country). Hope this helps. Andrew, KA2DDO author of YAAC |
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Coordinates and station location in the map
I am new to YAAC and APRS.? I am configuring a RPi3B+ APRS iGATE/Digipeater using Direwolf and YAAC.? I know I have set my coordinates exactly as what I got from "whatsmygps.com".? But my station (DX2CAR) is somewhere few kilometers away from the exact location.? Am I doing something wrong?
Thank you. de DU2UXH, Maximo |
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Re: APRS-IS passes weather, RF does not
I was so busy futzing with TNCs it didn't occur to me to try YAAC with the wx symbols. I needed a way to determine if I had a hardware or software issue, so I tried aprx. aprx doesn't check symbols, that is how I found that only wx symbols will make it as far as findu. I ended up using the D overlay. |
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Re: APRS-IS passes weather, RF does not
Hmmm.... I presume aprx sends the weather data without checking the symbol code? As in, it only needs one packet rather than converting to a 2-frame transmission?
Since a possibly related issue has been mentioned elsewhere for some other TNCs, I'm wondering if the problem is that some TNCs can't handle receiving a second packet from the computer before the TNC is finished transmitting the first packet, due to lack of buffering capacity and possible hold-back due to a busy RF channel. Some TNCs (such as the Kenwood TM-D7100/D710 radios) use RS232 hardware flow control to stop the local computer from sending more frame bytes when the TNC can't handle receiving any more, but not all TNCs do that, and not all USB-to-RS232 adapters actually support the RTS and CTS modem control signals in RS232 (as in, the computer would ignore the TNC's demand to stop sending). As such, I'm considering an inter-packet transmit delay feature if multiple frames are backed up for transmission on a particular TNC port, so as to ensure the TNC gets the packet out before YAAC tries to shove another packet into the TNC. As a first draft, I'm going to assume that twice the expected transmit time should be used for each packet, so as to allow the packet to be modulated and transmitted fully and then to release the PTT long enough for someone else to get a packet in before your station transmits again. In the interim, you might consider using a weather station code with an overlay character. For example, I have seen weather stations with an 'S' overlay to indicate they were solar-powered, a 'D' overlay for digipeater/weather stations, 'R' for a station with a Geiger counter measuring nuclear radiation, etc. Andrew, KA2DDO author of YAAC |
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Re: APRS-IS passes weather, RF does not
开云体育Did you set up the WXNOW.TXT ?port to read the wxnow file? ? Sent from for Windows 10 ? From: Bill WA4OPQ
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2020 9:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [yaac-users] APRS-IS passes weather, RF does not ? I recently picked a new TNC so I have been passing weather traffic across the room. I love how Andrew attaches the weather to a beacon which allows using other than just the wx symbol.?But I experienced a problem that may be related to this attachment technique. All of my weather flows OK into APRS-IS. When I send weather from my Pi-9K6 station to my Pi-TNC station only the position beacon arrives, no weather. When I send from the Pi-TNC station to the Pi-9K6 station it provides the weather about 60% of the time. I ended up setting the new station up with aprx and it passes weather fine, so it's not a hardware issue. ? |
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APRS-IS passes weather, RF does not
I recently picked a new TNC so I have been passing weather traffic across the room. I love how Andrew attaches the weather to a beacon which allows using other than just the wx symbol.?But I experienced a problem that may be related to this attachment technique. All of my weather flows OK into APRS-IS. When I send weather from my Pi-9K6 station to my Pi-TNC station only the position beacon arrives, no weather. When I send from the Pi-TNC station to the Pi-9K6 station it provides the weather about 60% of the time. I ended up setting the new station up with aprx and it passes weather fine, so it's not a hardware issue. |
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Re: Testing
Greetings,
Forced TX comes in handy for certain satellite work. Some passes can be busy, Doppler and other conditions adversely impact one's ability to get through and get reported to a satellite I-Gate/S-Gate on the ground. I monitor ariss.net/findu.com/etc. and stop transmitting as soon as the first packet gets through. 73, KD0KZE / Paul |
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Re: Testing
Yes. Firstly, when you press the Save Changes button on the Beacon configuration tab, that resets the decay timers so the beacon should be transmitted immediately (or at least within the fast transmit rate, depending on when it was last automatically sent).
Secondly, if you are viewing the main map window and the map itself has the keyboard focus (not the text message fields below the map), each time you tap the spacebar, the beacon should transmitted immediately, and the decay timers will be reset as though you had modified the beacon. Note that overdoing this will _not_ cause digipeaters or I-gates to forward each of your packets. These stations usually enforce the constraint of no duplicate packets more often 30 seconds from the same originating station. Hope this helps. Andrew, KA2DDO author of YAAC |
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YAAC Install Issue
Hi people, I want to write about my experience with YACC software. I was testing the last version of YAAC on a notebook with Ubuntu. ?uname -a Linux pdsnb1030 4.4.0-173-generic #203-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 15 02:55:01 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I Know?It's pretty old but it works in a very old notebook. I was using a PLXTraker Blue as a TNC via Bluetooth. At first the application don't connect over bluetooth, the app show a message like "error can't connect to bluethoot port" showing this error on syslog. Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: 1581729469424: PortEditor: selected appropriate default card Serial_TNC Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: 1581729469424: PortEditor: created. Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: javax.bluetooth.BluetoothStateException: BlueCove library bluecove not available Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: #011at com.intel.bluetooth.BlueCoveImpl.loadNativeLibraries(BlueCoveImpl.java:381) Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: #011at com.intel.bluetooth.BlueCoveImpl.detectStack(BlueCoveImpl.java:429) Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: #011at com.intel.bluetooth.BlueCoveImpl.access$500(BlueCoveImpl.java:65) Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: #011at com.intel.bluetooth.BlueCoveImpl$1.run(BlueCoveImpl.java:1020) Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: #011at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: #011at com.intel.bluetooth.BlueCoveImpl.detectStackPrivileged(BlueCoveImpl.java:1018) Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: #011at com.intel.bluetooth.BlueCoveImpl.getBluetoothStack(BlueCoveImpl.java:1011) Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: #011at javax.bluetooth.LocalDevice.getLocalDeviceInstance(LocalDevice.java:75) Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: #011at javax.bluetooth.LocalDevice.getLocalDevice(LocalDevice.java:95) Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: #011at org.ka2ddo.yaac.bluetooth.BluetoothProvider.findBluetoothSPPs(BluetoothProvider.java:108) Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: #011at org.ka2ddo.yaac.bluetooth.gui.BluetoothTNCPortEditor.run(BluetoothTNCPortEditor.java:326) Feb 14 22:17:49 Pdsnb1030 gnome-session[1640]: #011at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) After some googling and testing i found this solution. I think it's a good idea to include this package in the installation manual. The great advantage of using this microsat TNC is it work as a Digi when not connected via bluethoot and when you connect using YAAC or Aprsdroid it convert in a tnc.. Thank a lot to Andrew and all the supporter users who maintain this proyect alive. Claudio CX8FS |
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Re: YAAC WINLINK email
Could you send me your transmit, receive, and YAAC.out log files?
Also, are you beaconing, and did you wait until your first beacon went out before you tried it? Andrew, KA2DDO author of YAAC ________________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Ronny Julian <k4rjjradio@...> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 9:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [yaac-users] YAAC WINLINK email All I get is the login message to WLNK-1 no return. Verified my password is correct. On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 8:30 PM Andrew P. <andrewemt@...<mailto:andrewemt@...>> wrote: YAAC build#148 will try authenticating to WLNK-1, so you might not have to manually do the kludge with the three characters of your Winlink password. Try it and let me know if it works (I don't have a Winlink account to test with). |
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Re: YAAC WINLINK email
Ronny Julian
All I get is the login message to WLNK-1 no return.? Verified my password is correct. On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 8:30 PM Andrew P. <andrewemt@...> wrote: YAAC build#148 will try authenticating to WLNK-1, so you might not have to manually do the kludge with the three characters of your Winlink password. Try it and let me know if it works (I don't have a Winlink account to test with). |
Bill WA4OPQ
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