[arm-allstar] Wunderground API

David McGough kb4fxc at inttek.net
Wed Jan 15 15:25:05 EST 2020


Hi Dan,

I thought the free Wunderground API was gone, too. However, several days
ago I was able to setup a new account and generate an API key. I don't 
know how long this capability will last, but it seems to still work right 
now.


73, David KB4FXC


On Wed, 15 Jan 2020, "Dan Bates via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> All, 
> 
> Please note Wunderground has discontinued the API and unless you pay big
> bucks, you can no longer download you current weather info.
> 
> I have a Davis Weather Station, and upload to Weather Link.  Davis has a
> free API which I am now using.  This required some simple changes to my wx
> script due to the field names in the xml not matching WU names.
> 
> It is now working and my repeater spits out latest Wx one hourly IDs.
> 
> Anyone interested in my scripts, send me an email.
> 
> Dan n5tm
> 
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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Cannot bring autopatch up from radio side, command line OK
>       (Seth Miller)
>    2. Re: Cannot bring autopatch up from radio side, command line
>       OK (Seth Miller)
>    3. Re: Weather script updates are out (Maurice Dake)
>    4. Re: Weather script updates are out (Doug Crompton)
>    5. wx_condition.sh update (Doug Crompton)
>    6. Re: DVSwitch on Hamvoip (Doug Crompton)
> 
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:00:49 -0700
> From: Seth Miller <N6PLmail at gmail.com>
> To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> Subject: [arm-allstar] Cannot bring autopatch up from radio side,
> 	command line OK
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> 
> I have autopatch set up (via VoIP link to telco service provider) and if I
> initiate a call from the Asterisk command line (i.e. 'rpt fun 50xxx
> *618004321000') the call completes normally, however if I enter the same
> sequence from the radio side I can see each digit being decoded properly but
> the call does not initiate, in fact the digits seem to be ignored entirely.
> I am not exceeding the max allowed interdigit timing and not sure why the
> radio-side attempt is being ignored. Is there a digit termination character
> that must be entered or something simple that I am missing?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:56:59 -0700
> From: Seth Miller <N6PLmail at gmail.com>
> To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Cannot bring autopatch up from radio side,
> 	command line OK
> Message-ID:
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> 
> Nevermind, found the problem, bad DTMF encoder on the radio being used for
> the test. Asterisk was not decoding a single digit in the dial string and I
> didn't catch it. Other radios work fine.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 3:00 PM Seth Miller <N6PLmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have autopatch set up (via VoIP link to telco service provider) and 
> > if I initiate a call from the Asterisk command line (i.e. 'rpt fun 
> > 50xxx
> > *618004321000') the call completes normally, however if I enter the 
> > same sequence from the radio side I can see each digit being decoded 
> > properly but the call does not initiate, in fact the digits seem to be 
> > ignored entirely. I am not exceeding the max allowed interdigit timing 
> > and not sure why the radio-side attempt is being ignored. Is there a 
> > digit termination character that must be entered or something simple that
> I am missing?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:29:30 -0500
> From: "Maurice Dake" <mldake at comcast.net>
> To: <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Weather script updates are out
> Message-ID: <DD41DFCE9C744E14BCCFBB5692096CAC at MauriceLapTop>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="utf-8"
> 
> I previously had temperature and weather conditions reporting each hour by
> making the change to my cron- .  I just added the API for my weather station
> on Weather Underground to the two files mentioned and now only getting
> temperature.  Obviously, there are other changes that I?m not aware of that
> calls up weather station data rather than ZIP code weather information.
> Where do I call up my weather station data ?  I assume that people that
> previously had Weather Underground working already have these changes in
> their files.  What am I missing?
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 23:04:48 -0500
> From: Doug Crompton <wa3dsp at gmail.com>
> To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Weather script updates are out
> Message-ID:
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> 
> Maurice,
> 
>     What you are seeing is correct. There is no weather condition sent from
> the weather stations so if you use wunderground in place of zip or airport
> code in the hourly you will only get temperature. It has always been that
> way. Where you will get a more complete forecast - not for the hourly of
> course - is using wx_condition.sh which shows or speaks the data from the
> government or underground stations. Just type wx_condition.sh without
> parameters to see the options. I am sending out another update notice now so
> do an update again before you try it.
> 
> 
> *73 Doug*
> 
> *WA3DSP*
> 
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
> 
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 10:30 PM "Maurice Dake via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> > I previously had temperature and weather conditions reporting each 
> > hour by making the change to my cron- .  I just added the API for my 
> > weather station on Weather Underground to the two files mentioned and 
> > now only getting temperature.  Obviously, there are other changes that 
> > I?m not aware of that calls up weather station data rather than ZIP 
> > code weather information.  Where do I call up my weather station data 
> > ?  I assume that people that previously had Weather Underground 
> > working already have these changes in their files.  What am I missing?
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 23:11:27 -0500
> From: Doug Crompton <wa3dsp at gmail.com>
> To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> Subject: [arm-allstar] wx_condition.sh update
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> 
> There is another update tonight to fix a few problems in the wx_condition.sh
> script. This only effects the script not the .ini files so if you entered
> keys they will remain.  Do an update with item 1 in the admin menu.
> 
> This fixes some minor bugs associated with the prior release to fix the
> wunderground updates.
> 
> 
> *73 Doug*
> 
> *WA3DSP*
> 
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:36:27 -0500
> From: Doug Crompton <wa3dsp at gmail.com>
> To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] DVSwitch on Hamvoip
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> 
> Patrick,
> 
>  Sorry for the delay in answering. I discussed this with Dave and he will be
> updating the dvswitch GW SW to the latest binaries and restructuring the
> files in the next few days. There will probably be something about it by the
> weekend.
> 
> 
> *73 Doug*
> 
> *WA3DSP*
> 
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
> 
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:54 PM "Patrick Perdue via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi:
> >
> > I saw some discussion a while back about running DVSwitch on a Hamvoip 
> > install. Is this available as a package?
> >
> > I'm familiar enough with DVSwitch running it on other systems, but I 
> > now have cause to want to run it on one of my Hamvoip nodes as a 
> > personal
> > p25 bridge.
> >
> >
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