[GreenKeys] NWS weather bulletin Teletype software available soon / Volpe boards soon.....

[Jeff G]

Kind of ironic that you posted this...I was almost going to post the same
thing. I spent some time goofing around with my Model 32 literally
yesterday, and a Volpe board. I did the same thing but started to build it
in Powershell, which may (hopefully) be cross-compatible with Linux and Pi
as well as Windows (Powershell 7). Powershell is included in every version
of Windows since Windows 7, and Powershell 7 is open-source and
cross-compatible with MAC and Linux. Since the volpe board more or less has
a baudot device emulating a serial terminal, the same script can be used
for any serial terminal as well.

For now, it asks for a command from the TTY (kind of like the jumpwords AOL
and other services used back in the day) and produces some output. So far I
have it pulling the NWS forecast as well as well as random cat facts (first
freebie API I happened to find). I will likely add a few more APIs or other
features to it for fun but also useful, inspired by the Heavy Metal program
thats written in Perl. I did all this yesterday lol.

(The formatting in the pic is a little wonky due to my TTY keyboard
constantly sticking - I need to clean and lubricate it). My line-wrapping
setup is only 2 rules at the moment so while it could be tighter to the
right edge, its not bad.

[image: IMG_3451.jpg]

Jeff KC3GJX

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 4:38 PM E. <hanyou at xsmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hey all,
>
> I anticipate within the next few weeks, the National Weather Service
> Teletype software I’ve been working on with a software engineer over the
> past half of year, will be ready to be shared (I mentioned this software a
> few months ago, but ran in to a big bug and realized that it wasn’t ready
> for primetime).  The software works on a Raspberry Pi using Python and a
> Volpe v2 board (with or without a power relay)… it scrapes the NWS API
> service every 3.7 seconds for bulletins and will print them as received.
> From experience, the bulletin is delayed from actual issuance by one or two
> minutes, which is not bad.  You can monitor any county or state with it and
> will only print a new bulletin once, saving paper.  The software also has a
> nice warning bell feature to it… 10 bells for a warning, 5 bells for a
> watch and 4 bells for an advisories/anything else.  I’m going to find a
> website to upload the software/scripts to, once it’s complete.  I have to
> say though, the stuff is pretty darn cool ;D !  Donations are welcome once
> the software is out - due to the out-of-pocket costs for building the code
> - but not required.
>
> On a operate note, the Volpe board project that I’ve been working on for a
> while now - boards that people have paid for and have requested, are
> currently at the computer store being made and I hope to have them mailed
> out to everyone within the next month or so.  Please stay tuned to a future
> timeline as they are being made right now.
>
> Anywho, I hope everyone is doing well / staying healthy and all the best
> to everyone during these interesting times!  Cheers ^_^ ~
>
>
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