[arm-allstar] Weather Conditions, Forecasts and Alerts.

[Doug Crompton]

Steve,

 I doubt we will be doing anything more then there currently is in hamvoip
for weather. You can get voice conditions not forecasts using
weather_conditions.sh and temperature and the current condition using
weather.sh as well as alerts using AutoSky on hamvoip now. There are so
many other ways to get extended forecasts with smartphones and other
devices that it is really nothing more than a novelty to do it on amateur
radio. Legally we cannot rebroadcast other services forecasts so we are
limited to taking text and then using text to speech to broadcast and most
of the free TTS products are less than satisfactory. I think that most
would agree that having a minutes long weather forecast read out in
computer voice is not something they would want on amateur radio especially
with all the other avenues we have today to get that forecast. Most
handhelds can receive the government weather forecast stations.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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


On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 7:39 PM, "Steve via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> We have enjoyed our club hamvoip Echolink node since June of 2017 and have
> had no problems! Much appreciation for a very stable product.
>
> Some Club members have expressed interest in weather conditions and
> weather forecasts broadcast on the node by sending DTMF codes and also
> automatic broadcast weather alerts.
>
> I found what I think is an older How To on cromptom.com <
> http://cromptom.com/> that would do what I want but the noted config
> script was not present on our hamvoip rpi3. I believe it was written for
> bbb.
>
> Is there a current solution for weather conditions, forecasts and alerts
> on hamvoip? If so, can you point me to the How To please?
>
> If not, are there any other solutions?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Steve
> KD9AER
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