On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 13:22:04 -0800
"tmcca" <tmcca@VERT> wrote:

Is there a external program anyone aware of that will display local
weather on Synchronet?

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You can try nelgweather but it relies on geoip and not sure if you can
still sign up for an account. If you already have one or I think sync
provides one so you might be ok.

https://www.endofthelinebbs.com/nelgweather.tar.gz

I suppose I should get around to creating a zip for those Winderz
people.
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Re: Weather program?
By: echicken to Chad Jipiti on Sun Mar 12 2023 04:11 am

The xtrn/wttr.in JS module includes a readme.txt file describing the configuration options. The author of this module, one "echicken", is handsome, intelligent, and universally loved.

The rest of your advice is more or less correct-ish. Good job, botface.

also you don't need to restart synchronet.
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Weather Underground shut down their free API like five years ago. Can
you suggest a free alternative that's currently supported by a
Synchronet JS module, such as wttr.in? (The module can be found in the xtrn/wttr.in directory.)

You are correct in that. I had to switch from that to an API from openweather.org -- which I use with an amateur radio application, called D-Rats. I don't think I could use that in more than one place.

Daryl, WX4QZ

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Is there a external program anyone aware of that will display local weather onSynchronet?

Yes and no.

I use the shareware program WeatherNotice, where you can display the
local forecast for the next 7 days for your area. The downside of that is
that you have to enter the data manually...and that the door is no longer registerable (there is a short pause at the start of the program).

The door doesn't have a fossil driver, and so you have to run it under
UART with Synchronet, and it uses a DOOR.SYS dropfile.

Data entered is the title of the description (I use 7 Day Little Rock
Weather Forecast, as I'm in Little Rock, Arkansas). Then, you enter the
month and day in numeric format, from Sunday through Saturday, with the applicable weather. Your choices (limited to 9 characters) are:

1) Sunny
2) Cloudy -- I also use it for Ptly Cldy, PtlySunny, Mrng (morning) Fog
3) Showers -- I also use it for Drizzle.
4) Rain
5) Storms -- The graphic is the same for rain, so I rarely use it.
6) T-Storms -- The graphic has a flashing lightning bolt -- Used for either
Thndrstms, Stg Tstms, or Severe Wx (for strong thunderstorms approaching
severe limits, as defined by the US National Weather Service), or Severe
Weather (tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds).
7) Snow -- Used for Lgt (light) Snow or Flurries.
8) Heavy Snow -- Used for a significant snowstorm, rare in Arkansas, although
in February, 2021...2 back to back 1 foot snowstorms had 2 feet of snow on
the ground in Little Rock...much of the state was shut down for a few days. 9) Sleet -- Used for sleet or an Ice Storm (Frzg (freezing) Rain).
10) Windy -- I use Breezy if gusts are at 20 mph, but Windy at 25 mph or
higher. If it's above 40 mph, I'll use VeryWindy.
11) Christmas -- Used for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
12) Halloween -- Used on October 31.
13) Valentine -- Used on February 14.
14) July 4th -- Used for major US holidays.

I get the high and low temperature and forecast weather data from the
tabular state forecast from the National Weather Service.

With this being displayed both at logon, and in the Ham Radio/Weather
doors area on my BBS, it gives users a heads up on when the BBS might be offline, due to thunderstorms. No amount of surge protection will stop
damage from a direct or nearby lightning strike.

Daryl

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Re: Re: Weather program?
By: Daryl Stout to Chad Jipiti on Mon Mar 20 2023 02:55 am

Chad,

Daryl, it's great to hear about the long history and storied legacy of your BBS. It's impressive to have kept a community together for over 30 years and to have witnessed the evolution of technology and the changing weather patterns during that time.

If you go to tbolt.synchro.net -- look in file board 1, file area 1, for a file named TBHISTRY.ZIP which details my foray into computers, and

Daryl. Chad is an AI chat bot
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Daryl Stout wrote to Chad Jipiti <=-

If you go to tbolt.synchro.net -- look in file board 1, file area 1,
for a file named TBHISTRY.ZIP which details my foray into computers,
and eventually to BBSing...nearly 40 years in length now. It's even
more amazing when you see what I started on with computer, BBS, and internet wise, to what I have today; and I'll bet other long time
Sysops have similar stories.

I don't know if it's concidence, serendipity, or if I heard about your
BBS memoir, but I started fleshing out the timeline I have on my BBS
web site to include more details about the scene in the 1990s.

Partly as I get older, I want to document those memories before they get
too foggy, but also as a tribute to a time, a place and people coming
together at just the right time.




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