[arm-allstar] weather ... or not

[Ken]

They say a decision was made to "terminate this service"

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/scn16-16wngccb.htm

I found a linux function called "html2text" which might be useful ....



-----Original Message-----
From: David McGough [mailto:kb4fxc at inttek.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2016 11:32 PM
To: Ken <ke2n at cs.com>
Cc: 'David McGough via arm-allstar' <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
Subject: RE: [arm-allstar] weather ... or not


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&uni
> t=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&un
> > it
> > =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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