<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>Miroslav,<div><br></div><div>Can you identify the makes and models of such weather sensors as you are considering? This sounds like an interesting addition for my APRS software, but I'd need to know the data format transferred over the TCP/IP connection from the weather sensor, and which end would initiate the connection.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance.</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO</div><div>author of YAAC</div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: KF4LVZ <aprssigZbr6@acarver.net> <br>Date: 12/12/17 15:24 (GMT-05:00) <br>To: aprssig@tapr.org <br>Subject: Re: [aprssig] WX data over Ethernet or Wi-Fi = Possible? <br><br>On 2017-12-12 12:15, Nick VA3NNW wrote:<br>> Miroslav Skoric wrote:<br>>> Having in mind that APRS software usually listen a WX device on a<br>>> serial RS232 port or USB, I wonder if someone managed to feed the APRS<br>>> software by using a temperature/humidity data logger equipped with<br>>> only Ethernet and/or WiFi connectivity.<br>> <br>> Straight to APRS-IS, sure. I'm not hitting the actual RF APRS at that<br>> point though. See http://noseynick.net/wx/noseywx.html - or more<br>> generally, "CWOP" http://www.wxqa.com/ - which includes a bunch of<br>> non-hams talking direct to APRS-IS, using APRS formats etc but again,<br>> not over RF.<br>> <br><br>I think Miroslav isn't talking about APRS -IS connectivity but actually<br>feeding APRS software with weather data from a device that does not have<br>a serial port.<br><br>Depending on what software is running and the type of device it's<br>running on this is possible. There are a number of virtual serial port<br>programs for Windows and Mac that will create a connection to a remote<br>device over the network and present it as a serial port on the local<br>machine. Linux systems can use a program called socat to accomplish the<br>same thing.<br><br>If the device running the APRS software can't run these virtual serial<br>port programs for whatever reason the alternative is to use a hardware<br>serial-to-ethernet bridge to establish the connection to the remote<br>weather logger and connect to the local computer via a real serial port.<br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br>aprssig@tapr.org<br>http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig<br></body></html>