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  • syncWXremix alternative

    From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to echicken on Tue Feb 28 01:04:00 2023
    I stumbled upon https://wttr.in/ last week and thought it would be a
    good replacement for KenDB3's syncWXremix, which stopped working some years ago. I've put a little module in git at xtrn/wttr.in/ for those
    who wish to try it.

    I would definitely be interested in having this for my BBS.

    Daryl

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  • From Gamgee@1:103/705 to Daryl Stout on Wed Mar 1 08:16:00 2023
    Daryl Stout wrote to echicken <=-

    I stumbled upon https://wttr.in/ last week and thought it would be a
    good replacement for KenDB3's syncWXremix, which stopped working some years ago. I've put a little module in git at xtrn/wttr.in/ for those
    who wish to try it.

    I would definitely be interested in having this for my BBS.

    Well..... go to the git repository and get it. It's right there, freely available to all!



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  • From echicken@1:103/705 to Phigan on Wed Mar 1 18:03:00 2023
    Re: syncWXremix alternative
    By: Phigan to Daryl Stout on Wed Mar 01 2023 09:52:28

    On my WWIV board I just made a script that asks for some input from the user and does a call to wttr.in for the infos. In Windows, a batch file should do.

    One problem is that their 'ANSI' output is 256 colour. Some terminals will handle this just fine, others will ignore their colour sequences and the graphic will be mono. You could pipe it through this utility:

    https://github.com/zaidhaan/xterm2ansi

    For Synchronet sysops, the module I created handles this internally.

    Prompting for location input is a nice idea and I might make that an option.

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  • From Phigan@1:103/705 to echicken on Thu Mar 2 09:06:30 2023
    Re: syncWXremix alternative
    By: echicken to Phigan on Wed Mar 01 2023 06:03 pm

    One problem is that their 'ANSI' output is 256 colour. Some terminals will

    True, but I strip the color with the '?T' option.

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  • From Codefenix@1:103/705 to echicken on Thu Mar 2 13:27:00 2023
    Re: syncWXremix alternative
    By: echicken to Phigan on Wed Mar 01 2023 06:03 pm

    Prompting for location input is a nice idea and I might make that an option.

    That's what I do here as well. User gets the option to use either their IP, or any freetext input that wttr.in would consider a valid location.

    My wx center mod that I've been tooling around with mainly uses a few different APIs (weather.gov & openweathermap.org) to retrieve and display forecast data, and also displays weather maps in sixel format. wttr.in was something I decided to add to it just to see if I could get it to display OK. Your handling of 256-16 conversion is way more elegant than mine! However I still like to do most of my own character substitutions, such as for the windspeed direction arrows. I could never find a suitable diagonal arrow substitution, so I recently just settled on NE, NW, SE, SW.

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  • From Android8675@1:103/705 to echicken on Wed Mar 8 10:04:50 2023
    Re: syncWXremix alternative
    By: echicken to Android8675 on Mon Feb 27 2023 07:41 pm

    Bit of a bummer either way. The main thing I liked about this service was that it seemed to require minimal effort on my end. :)
    It's nice, it looks great, and like you said it translates easily to BBS Land. I just re-fixed my fTelnet, but I'm still interested in VFX Terminal I mentioned the other day. Maybe I'll tinker and see if I can get it working.

    Good stuff eC.

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