Does anyone know if there is a weather program that uses the WMO Index Number as opposed to the ICAO Location Indicator used by the KDE and Gmome appletts? Olle -- War does not determine who is right, war determine who is left. Registered Linux User 61169 http://counter.li.org Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at: http://bookcrossing.com/friend/Olle
The 03.07.31 at 09:27, Olle Viksten wrote:
Does anyone know if there is a weather program that uses the WMO Index Number as opposed to the ICAO Location Indicator used by the KDE and Gmome appletts?
Let me see... there is: NAME WMWEATHER - Dockable Weather Monitor DESCRIPTION wmWeather monitors local weather conditions (temperature, Dew Point, Pressure, Humidity and Wind direction and speed). The user needs to specify a 4-character `METAR station identifier code'. (The standardized METAR station designations and current weather reports are designed for use by the aviation community. Since most major cities have at least one airport, there is usually one or more METAR stations in a given city.) You (obviously) need to be connected to the internet and you also need to have wget installed (most linux systems should have it already). wmWeather will then attempt to download the latest METAR report for the station of your choice (from the National Weather Sevice run by NOAA). NAME GrabWeather - retrieve weather conditions from the National Weather Service DESCRIPTION This Perl-script retrieves the current local weather con ditions from the national Weather Service (NWS), converts the data into a text-format and stores the result in a plain text file. GrabWeather requires the 4-character METAR station code as the first and only command-line option. NAME bbweather - display the current weather conditions DESCRIPTION bbweather is a tool which displays the current weather conditions in an decorated window, simulating the look of the Blackbox toolbar (Blackbox is a Windowmanager for X11). This tool is heavily based on bbdate by John Kennis, almost 90% of the code (rough guess ;) were taken over unaltered. Furthermore, bbweather was inspired by wmWeather by Michael G. Henderson, from where "Grab Weather", the perl-script that fetches the weather-condi tions from your local station originates. I don't know if this helps :-? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Op donderdag 31 juli 2003 13:11, schreef Carlos E. R.:
Does anyone know if there is a weather program that uses the WMO Index Number as opposed to the ICAO Location Indicator used by the KDE and Gmome appletts?
Let me see... there is:
NAME WMWEATHER - Dockable Weather Monitor
Obtained via? richard@dar:~> apropos weather wmweather (1) - Dockable Weather Monitor WMWEATHER (1) [wmweather] - Dockable Weather Monitor WMSPACEWEATHER (1) [wmspaceweather] - Dockable Space Weather Monitor wmspaceweather (1) - Dockable Space Weather Monitor -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On Thursday 31 July 2003 17:50 pm, Richard Bos wrote:
Op donderdag 31 juli 2003 13:11, schreef Carlos E. R.:
Does anyone know if there is a weather program that uses the WMO Index Number as opposed to the ICAO Location Indicator used by the KDE and Gmome appletts?
Let me see... there is:
NAME WMWEATHER - Dockable Weather Monitor
Obtained via?
Google is your friend... http://www.godisch.de/debian/wmweather/
richard@dar:~> apropos weather wmweather (1) - Dockable Weather Monitor WMWEATHER (1) [wmweather] - Dockable Weather Monitor WMSPACEWEATHER (1) [wmspaceweather] - Dockable Space Weather Monitor wmspaceweather (1) - Dockable Space Weather Monitor
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The 03.07.31 at 23:50, Richard Bos wrote:
Let me see... there is:
NAME WMWEATHER - Dockable Weather Monitor
Obtained via?
All are included with suse 8.2, perhaps some more. I was trying one, perhaps wmweather, the other day, but couldn't make it work.
richard@dar:~> apropos weather
Exactly :-) But also "pin weather", which saws non installed things as well. For example, there is a WindowMaker applet. Or "sitescooper", that reads certains web sites converting it to usable text, and some of the configurations are for weather fetching, I think. Even flightgear! See: /usr/lib/FlightGear/Weather/MetarStations LEMD;08;221;Madrid / Barajas;;Spain;6;40-27N;003-33W;40-30N;003-35W;609;582;P -- Cheers
The 03.08.01 at 01:29, I wrote:
All are included with suse 8.2, perhaps some more. I was trying one, perhaps wmweather, the other day, but couldn't make it work.
I tried "GrabWeather LEMD" (and others), but it failed, with the message: Could not fetch data using: "wget --proxy=off --passive-ftp --tries 0 -q -O /home/cer/.wmWeatherReports/LEMD.TXT ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/LEMD.TXT" Maybe non-existant Station ID? I tried manually that ftp server, and when I get to the directory ".../decoded" it times out, can not get an ls. I also manually tried WEATHER.NOAA.GOV, same dir (it exists), and I get the same result, timeout after absolutely no response. Not an ls listing, not get a single file. Nothing :-( cer@nimrodel:~/.wmWeatherReports> wget ftp://WEATHER.NOAA.GOV/data/observations/metar/decoded/LEMD.TXT --13:22:59-- ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/LEMD.TXT => `LEMD.TXT.1' Resolving weather.noaa.gov... done. Connecting to weather.noaa.gov[205.156.51.200]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /data/observations/metar/decoded ... -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
* Carlos E. R.
The 03.08.01 at 01:29, I wrote:
All are included with suse 8.2, perhaps some more. I was trying one, perhaps wmweather, the other day, but couldn't make it work.
I tried "GrabWeather LEMD" (and others), but it failed, with the message:
Could not fetch data using: "wget --proxy=off --passive-ftp --tries 0 -q -O /home/cer/.wmWeatherReports/LEMD.TXT ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/LEMD.TXT" Maybe non-existant Station ID?
I tried manually that ftp server, and when I get to the directory ".../decoded" it times out, can not get an ls. I also manually tried WEATHER.NOAA.GOV, same dir (it exists), and I get the same result, timeout after absolutely no response. Not an ls listing, not get a single file. Nothing :-(
cer@nimrodel:~/.wmWeatherReports> wget ftp://WEATHER.NOAA.GOV/data/observations/metar/decoded/LEMD.TXT
--13:22:59-- ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/LEMD.TXT => `LEMD.TXT.1' Resolving weather.noaa.gov... done. Connecting to weather.noaa.gov[205.156.51.200]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /data/observations/metar/decoded ...
pat@wahoo:~> GrabWeather LEMD cat .wmWeatherReports/LEMD.TXT Madrid / Barajas, Spain (LEMD) 40-27N 003-33W 582M Aug 01, 2003 - 07:00 PM EDT / 2003.08.01 2300 UTC Wind: from the NNW (340 degrees) at 6 MPH (5 KT) (direction variable):0 Visibility: greater than 7 mile(s):0 Temperature: 80 F (27 C) Dew Point: 33 F (1 C) Relative Humidity: 18% Pressure (altimeter): 30.06 in. Hg (1018 hPa) ob: LEMD 012300Z 34005KT 320V030 CAVOK 27/01 Q1018 NOSIG cycle: 23 cat .wmWeatherReports/LEMD.dat Madrid / Barajas, Spain (LEMD) 40-27N 003-33W 582M Aug 01, 2003 - 07:00 PM EDT / 2003.08.01 2300 UTC 23:00 80 33 -999 30.06 18 -340 5.75775 Patience ....... -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
The 03.08.01 at 18:39, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
pat@wahoo:~> GrabWeather LEMD
cat .wmWeatherReports/LEMD.TXT Madrid / Barajas, Spain (LEMD) 40-27N 003-33W 582M Aug 01, 2003 - 07:00 PM EDT / 2003.08.01 2300 UTC
Yes, that's what I should get :-)
Patience .......
X'-) But still it doesn't quite work for me: cer@nimrodel:~> GrabWeather LEMD Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/X11R6/bin/GrabWeather line 200. cer@nimrodel:~> But even so, I got some data. I try another time,and it fails. I'm trying manually with wget, and it's taking an awfull long time... ah, now, it got it; Longer than needed to type this message. It seems to be a very slowwwww server. The gnome weather applet its taking its data from the very same server, but using http protocol instead of ftp (tgftp.nws.noaa.gov:http) - I have an iptraf window open, and it has downloaded 7187 bytes - a lot - but it took seconds. I wonder if that info is mirrored somewhere else, not only a US server? Or does everybody in the world request it from there... :-? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
* Carlos E. R.
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But still it doesn't quite work for me:
cer@nimrodel:~> GrabWeather LEMD Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/X11R6/bin/GrabWeather line 200. cer@nimrodel:~>
I get the same, apparently SkyConditions is not provided ??
But even so, I got some data. I try another time,and it fails. I'm trying manually with wget, and it's taking an awfull long time... ah, now, it got it; Longer than needed to type this message. It seems to be a very slowwwww server.
agreed, verrrry slow...
The gnome weather applet its taking its data from the very same server, but using http protocol instead of ftp (tgftp.nws.noaa.gov:http) - I have an iptraf window open, and it has downloaded 7187 bytes - a lot - but it took seconds.
I wonder if that info is mirrored somewhere else, not only a US server? Or does everybody in the world request it from there... :-?
guess it's GooGle time, I'll have a Bud, myself. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
Carlos E. R. wrote, On 08/01/2003 07:29 AM:
All are included with suse 8.2, perhaps some more. I was trying one, perhaps wmweather, the other day, but couldn't make it work.
Have you tried Kweather, a part of kdetoys3. I saw your posts about weather, went to sourceforge, found out there was a KDE program, then found out it was still around in kdetoys3. It is a tray applet, but it actually works, and was very straight forward to configure. Try it out. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
The 03.08.01 at 21:07, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Have you tried Kweather, a part of kdetoys3. I saw your posts about weather, went to sourceforge, found out there was a KDE program, then
But we were trying to find something else, diferent from those kde or gnome applets.
found out it was still around in kdetoys3. It is a tray applet, but it actually works, and was very straight forward to configure. Try it out.
I know, I tried it time ago :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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