BME280 data on aprs.fi
IZ1HMT opened this issue · comments
'73 Thomas! Thank you for this feature rich firmware. I'm contacting you because I can't display the BME280 data on aprs.fi. I have a T-Echo with the sensor obviously. Displays voltage but not weather data. What am I doing wrong?
Another question... is it possible to change the timezone?
Matteo IZ1HMT
Hi Matteo!
You are probably doing nothing wrong. I have very recently been made aware that my implementation of the APRS weather protocol is not compliant with the specification, which is probably the reason.
The data did show up during some of my tests, though, at least on https://aprs-map.info . I'm currently working on a new release that will contain a fix for this. It will take a few more days, though. I'll let you know when it’s done.
The time is only displayed in UTC currently. I’ll put your request on my growing list of things to make configurable, but I won’t integrate it into the next release. First the menu needs to be reorganized, otherwise it will become completely unusable when more options are added.
73 de Thomas DL5TKL
Thanks for the quick reply Thomas! Yes, I noticed now that on https://aprs-map.info the weather information is displayed.
I look forward to your next release.
Thank you also for listing the time zone request.
I would also like to translate all the menus into Italian, as I did with other codes found on Github, if you like I can do it for you if you provide me with the part of the code to translate.
Hi again, I have just released Version 0.9 which should fix the weather packets and also improves the APRS handling in many other ways. Weather data is now transmitted as positionless weather reports, i.e. separately from the position packets. aprs.fi and aprs-map.info correctly show the weather data at the position markers, though. Please let me know if it works for you, too.
I appreciate your offer to translate the menu. Unfortunately, there is no infrastructure for multiple languages in the code so far, so I can't really integrate it right now. I'll think about a good method to implement translation in a general way.
However, if you want to build a dedicated Italian version yourself in the meantime, you can take a look at menusystem.c which contains most of the menu text.
Hi Matteo, could you test version 0.9 and does it work for you regarding weather data? Feedback would be welcome so this issue can either be closed or improved further.
As soon as I can, I'm currently using the meshstatic firmware on my T-Echo.
Closing this issue for now. If you find any problems regarding the weather data transmission, feel free to reopen.