[OZAPRS] APRS-WX - BOM to APRS-IS WX Object Creator

vk2tv vk2tv at exemail.com.au
Sat Nov 23 07:58:18 AEDT 2019


I wrote a combination of shell script and Perl to do something similar 
but it was specifically to suit the udp server in xastir. It's not 
pretty but it's worked for ten years. So many ways to skin a cat.

Ray vk2tv

On 23/11/19 1:35 am, Mark Jessop wrote:
> That code looks similar to something I wrote a few years back: 
> https://gist.github.com/darksidelemm/e1e2670a265ef18cbcf847d11e66864e
>
> Mine uses the JSON feed, which is fairly easy to parse (with only a 
> little bit of oddness), and will probably break under Python 3 also. 
> Looks like it should be fairly simple to make it compatible with a few 
> strategically placed .encode('ascii') statements however...
>
> 73
> Mark VK5QI
>
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 12:16 AM Marcus B <mrmabs at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mrmabs at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hey all,
>
>     Currently sitting in Canberra away from home for a couple of
>     months, I've started to go through some of my old code, and I
>     found this program I built to send BOM weather data to the APRS
>     network while visiting VK2DGJ back in around 2002. The code is
>     pretty simple, it grabbed the text weather data from the BOM,
>     filtered it and generated an aprs-is packet. It looks like from
>     the state of the code that I may have packaged this up in the past
>     (callsign commented out), so it may exist elsewhere? Maybe even on
>     this list or a previous incarnation?
>
>     I seem to remember that this was before many objects like this
>     were routinely posted to the network like there is now.
>
>     I know there are many other ways of doing this job currently in
>     existence, so this code is only really there for prosperity, but
>     if there is a need to make this work in the modern world give it a
>     go, or I can look into it. It would be run from a cron job at a
>     regular interval.
>
>     Here's the github link: https://github.com/mrmabs/aprs-wx
>
>     73,
>     VK3TST / VK5WTF
>
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