[arm-allstar] weather ... or not

[Mark Johnston]

Another one that works rather well, is

lynx -dump http://.....  > file.txt

That processes the HTML to text as well.

I used to use html2txt as well.

Another place to get weather is 'the Weather underground' mobile site I
wrote a script to get Current condition/Forecast based on zip code the user
enters.




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On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Ken via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> wrote:

> 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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