[arm-allstar] weather ... or not

[David McGough]

Hi Ken,

I think the text forecast info is still available, but NOAA has shuffled 
everything around and changed the formatting, etc. Some discovery work
will be required to figure a new strategy out. Here is one example of the
new forecast summary text:

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=34.2124&lon=-77.9113&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=text&TextType=1

Ultimately, I expect we'll have an updated solution. The V1.5 release in
testing now includes several new hamvoip specific packages, including the    
WX scripts, the flite TTS engine w/arctic voices and a VoiceRSS connector.
I expect we'll have a Cepstral modules, too.

I'll also mention that I expect V1.5 will get released before the WX 
scripting is completed.  For those users wishing to add WX capability, a 
simple pacman update to install the needed packages will get you going.

BTW, if someone would like to poke around the NOAA website and develop a 
solution, you're certainly welcome to proceed! Help in this area would be 
appreciated!

73, David KB4FXC



On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, Ken via arm-allstar wrote:

> A year ago, when my local NWS office stopped producing podcasts of 5-day
> forecasts and alerts, I installed the W0ANM scripts and bought a license for
> Diane's voice from CEPSTRAL to speak the text message forecasts that were
> still available.  Now NWS have stopped producing text forecasts. 
> 
> I wonder what other people are doing to get a forecast into their Allstar
> setup? (alerts and warnings are still available, but not forecasts).
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> Thanks
> 
> Ken
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