[GreenKeys] Weather & News

[Paul Heller]

Eric wrote a nice weather forecast program that runs on the raspberry PI. it also prints put alerts, with bells, as they come. If you are handy with python and linux you can make it work on other systems.




Paul
W2TTY
i-Telex: 80003 or 468466

ITTY:  		HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8000/ITTY
ITTY100:  	HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8010/ITTY100
AUTOSTART:  HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8030/AUTOSTART
EUROPE: 	HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8040/EUROPE


> 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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