[GreenKeys] Weather & News

[Paul Heller]

Eric wrote a nice weather forecast program that runs on the raspberry PI. it also prints put alerts as they come.


> On Mar 31, 2021, at 8:28 PM, til128 at juno.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Duncan and all:
> 
> For WX, go here and scroll down to your state. If you are in NY, give me your location and I will give you the zone #  Otherwise it will be a hit and miss project.
>  
> https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/zone/ <https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/zone/>
>  
> HM will not print banners as "FABS" will not run on 64 bit systems.( WIN10)
>  
> RTTY art is a hit and miss affair also as some have bee corrupted.
>  
> Stocks and today in history urls are changed daily as are Top Stories.
>  
> In order to bypass your listed problems I have a couple of old Dell Latitude laptops (D610) running XP and with RS232 ports dedicated strictly for my machines.
>  
> Tom WB2TTY
> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Duncan Brown <duncanancy at earthlink.net>
> To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Weather & News
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:29:23 -0400
> 
> Tom,
> 
> One of the problems with the original HeavyMetal program  was that it 
> was written to bring in text files from specific URLs, but then the URLs 
> changed and/or they changed from simple text files to HTML or whatever.
> 
> For weather forecasts, you can still get text files from the National 
> Weather Service.  For example,
> ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/zone/ny/nyz014.txt will bring up 
> the Canandaguia, NY weather forecast for the day and HM will send it to 
> your TTY.  We do this all the time at the AWA Museum.
> The problem is, figuring out the NWS code for your city. The URL I have 
> for the NWS codes 
> http://nws.noaa.gov/mirs/public/prods/maps/pfzones_list.htm  does not 
> seem to work any more.
> 
> good luck,
> 
> Duncan
> K2OEQ
> 
> On 31-Mar-21 11:45, Tom Hunter wrote:
> > Paul Wills,
> >
> > What operating system are you running Heavy Metal on? I have Heavy Metal but understand it takes Windows 95/98. And where are you getting weather and News?
> >
> > Tom   N3CRK
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