[arm-allstar] AutoSky, A Skywarn script for hamvoip

[Doug Crompton]

I have run this many times here and it works fine. Be aware of a couple of
things. There was a spelling error in the howto. It is now corrected. The
directories are spelled AUTOSKY, all caps, the filenames in all cases are
spelled - AutoSky - capital A and S. Shown below is the tail of my
/etc/rc.local file with the added commands.

/usr/local/etc/rc.allstar

/usr/local/bin/AUTOSKY/AutoSky
/usr/local/bin/AUTOSKY/AutoSky.ON

exit 0

When my system boots it says my ID and IP address and then "weather alert
on"
The /tmp/AUTOSKY directory should look like this -

[root at Pi3-test supermon]# ls /tmp/AUTOSKY/
alert.enbl  alert.save  alert.txt1  alert.txt2  WXA

The alert.enbl file shows it is enabled. After this point the cron entry
actually starts things rolling. In 4 minutes you should get an all alerts
clear message. The journal should look like below. There may be one
Xresult=2 then it will go to 1 on the first 4 minute interval giving the
clear message and finally 0 after that until an event occurs.

journalctl  -f

Apr 18 10:44:15 Pi3-test CROND[906]: (root) CMDOUT (AutoSky Xresult is 2)

Apr 18 10:48:01 Pi3-test CROND[1381]: (root) CMD
(/usr/local/bin/AUTOSKY/AutoSky)
Apr 18 10:48:01 Pi3-test CROND[1380]: (root) CMDOUT (AutoSky Xresult is 1)
Apr 18 10:48:02 Pi3-test CROND[1380]: pam_unix(crond:session): session
closed for user root

​Be sure your cron entry is in there and correct. after you enter and save
it do a 'crontab -l'  to ​view it. It should look like this:

*/4 * * * * /usr/local/bin/AUTOSKY/AutoSky

and it should display every 4 minutes in the 'journalctl -f'  output.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:23 AM, "Maurice Dake via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Loaded this program and it loads on boot up (get a voice indication).  I
> have also loaded the *880 and *881 commands but get no voice indication of
> turn off and on.
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