[Lcdproc] My LCD client project

[Peter Marschall]

Hi,

On Monday, 17. November 2008, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:58 PM,  <joris at robijn.net> wrote:
> >> Is there a "standard" weather format that I should follow, or that other
> >> weather sources use, so I can be closer to a standard (and re-use my
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is standard called METAR you you might want to follow. There is a
> > lcdproc metar client avaialable somewhere, that you could use to read
> > your own wheather station's data...
>
> I've worked on Geo::METAR.  The latest version should handle non-US
> temps/distances/etc., but the years-old version handles US sites
> pretty well.
>
> Metars are a method of transmitting observations - it's a highly-coded
> method (thus the use of Geo::METAR) of describing temps, winds,
> precipitation, and "special" comments.  There's already a client for
> grabbing Metars for established stations, and I've tweaked on it quite
> a bit to handle non-US locations, but still have a bit of work to make
> it sharable.
>
> If you want to create an output stream that others can read (manually
> or with something like Geo::METAR), Metars are a known format for
> publishing formatted weather data.  If you are just trying to format
> your own local data for LCDproc, it's probably overkill.

LCDproc already contains a client called lcdmetar.pl
that uses Geo::METAR.

Regards
Peter


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Peter Marschall
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