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>Sounds good on the application. What I think I'll do is tell people who >want to use AWIPS in the department to download the CAVE application that >you sent me and have each download on their own device. And sounds good on >the products, just remembered when we switched from our own Aerospace >server at UND to an EDEX server we didn't use some of the products or had >them turned off. But it might have been because we were having network >issues having for example a class of 25 online on each computer at once >trying to use the application. >Sorry I should have clarified, Evan Polster for GSL/WISE just a released an >update on our own FxCAVE that we use on the AWS, and he added in the MRMS >data which we didn't have before on the system. He's working on satellite >data getting it back. >But yup that makes sense that we'll have each download a copy of CAVE and >then have some sort of server setup. I think what was suggested is that we >have each person who wants a copy have it downloaded on their own device, >but I was told too today that it would be great having it on a couple of >our lab machines so that we can do briefings on the larger TV screens in >there (if that makes sense). Sounds good. At this point have users download CAVE like you said, but I suggest just having them connect to Unidata's EDEX in the cloud. http://unidata.github.io/awips2/install/install-cave/#edex-connection Thanks, Tiffany Meyer AWIPS Lead Software Engineer UCAR-Unidata If you're interested, please feel free to fill out a survey about the support you receive: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDIkdk8qUMgq8ZdM4jhP-ubJPUOr-mJMQgxInwoAWoV5QcOw/viewform Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: NLY-733318 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: High Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.