Networked weather station

This interface can communicate with certain daemons that serve weather station data via a TCP/IP port.

• WX Host: the address of the machine running the weather daemon
• WX Port: The port on which that daemon listens
• Activate on Startup?
• Comment: Displayed on the Interface Control list.
• Reconnect on failure?
• Data type: the type of data served. Auto detect is usually safe
• Rain Gauge Correction: Xastir requires that the rain gauge report in .01 inch increments. If the unit reports in .1 inch or .1 millimeter increments, a correction must be specified to obtain accurate measurements.

Supported weather daemon software

Xastir comes with a few different weather daemon codes that produce the data it needs by taking the information from databases or files.

• The LaCrosse directory of the Xastir source code contains a small daemon program that reads mysql databases populated by the mysql2300 program of the Open2300 package.
• The Davis directory of the Xastir source code contains a daemon program that reads mysql databases populated by the meteo package.
• The wxnowsrv.pl script in the Xastir scripts directory creates a daemon process that periodically checks a "wxnow.txt" file created by the WeeWx package, providing access to a large number of more modern weather stations.