[arm-allstar] weather ... or not

[David McGough]

Yes, agreed, the original forecasts which were retrieved are history, 
unfortunately.

...It might be worth asking a local NWS office where they pull their text 
for TTS from?? That text might be available via the web, from some well 
hidden away source, somewhere!



On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, Ken wrote:

> 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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