[arm-allstar] weather ... or not

[Ken]

Well - I would say that the "Zone Forecast" that the W0ANM scripts are
designed for has been discontinued.
The Area Forecast Discussion is a different thing altogether - a bit too
verbose.

But, as you say, the city (or lat/lon) forecast is available in a text mode 

If I modify the getWxFor to do something like:

wget
"http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=38.8121&lon=-77.6375&unit=0&lg
=english&FcstType=text&TextType=1" -O mywx

one does get something similar - looks like you have to throw away the first
38 lines and the last line, then filter out the  <b> and <br> 
Prefix with a header that says the location and then carry on as before.
something to try ...

73
Ken


-----Original Message-----
From: David McGough [mailto:kb4fxc at inttek.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2016 9:59 PM
To: David McGough via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
Cc: Ken <ke2n at cs.com>
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] weather ... or not


Here might be another useful example:

http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=ILM&product=AFD&fo
rmat=CI&version=1&glossary=1&highlight=off



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

> 
> 
> 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).
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Ken
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> 
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