On Wednesday 19 October 2016 05:14:46 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 05:09:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Wednesday 19 October 2016 00:33:29 Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > >> When you visit the URL it's fetching there's a notice that the > >> service is no longer available: > >> "In Accordance with NWS Service Change Notice 16-16 this service > >> has been discontinued." > >> > >> Regards, > >> /peter > > > >And replaced by what? > > > >I did find that quoted phrase in my searching, but not that Change > > Notice 16-16. itself. > > Really? I searched for "NWS Service Change Notice 16-16" (no quotes) > and this www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/scn16-16wngccb.htm was the > first result. It states that weather.gov now supplies all the > appropriate information, so weather.noaa.gov is no longer needed.
I khexedited the deamon, found that address string and changed it to http://www.weather.gov. but on a restart, that gives a 404 error about once a minute. I'll go recheck that weather.gov site & see if I can get any schmardter. I found the data for the local, actually under the correct label, but its going to be fun editing that path into that binary. I would assume the KCKB.TXT isn't needed because thats a different, editable entry in the config http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/KCKB.TXT Editing that into the .so apparently exceeds the string length even if I was over-writing $00's to do it, I now get a segfault and it exits. The deamon however does start ok. I'll reinstall, so at least the rest of gkrellm works. > >But using that phrase, I did find it, and the request for comments > > that was published a few months before, along with some contact > > names, one of which has now been sent a query about its replacement. > > > >Thanks Peter. > > > >> Am 19.10.2016 um 05:32 schrieb Gene Heskett: > >> > METAR is a std data format that has been used for many years. > >> > I've been using a gkrellm, with its plugin gk-weather for about a > >> > decade, but I've just become aware that the last time I got valid > >> > METAR data from the airport about 20 miles northeast of me was on > >> > July 28th. > >> > > >> > So as a double-chk, I installed the metar program from the wheezy > >> > repo. It reports: > >> > > >> > gene@sheldon:~$ metar -v KCKB > >> > Retrieving URL > >> > http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/KCKB > >> >.TX T METAR pattern not found in NOAA data. > >> > > >> > So I switched to a slightly closer airport in Buchannon wv, and > >> > get the same response. > >> > > >> > gene@sheldon:~$ metar -v KW22 > >> > Retrieving URL > >> > http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/KW22 > >> >.TX T METAR pattern not found in NOAA data. > >> > > >> > Poking around on the NOAA.gov main site, there is no mention of > >> > it being discontinued that is easily searched for. > >> > > >> > Anybody have a light to shine on this? > >> > > >> > Thanks everybody. > >> > > >> > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > >Cheers, Gene Heskett > >-- > >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > >-Ed Howdershelt (Author) > >Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
