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[IDD #DBI-990675]: IDD for Private Company/Developers

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  • Subject: [IDD #DBI-990675]: IDD for Private Company/Developers
  • Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 17:06:11 -0600
Hi Bryce,

re:
> I'm a private company(/amateur forecaster) and developer looking into
> AWIPS II and obtaining a LDM feed. What are my options for connecting
> to the IDD/LDM network outside of a university setting?

You have a couple of different options:

1) establish your own NOAAPort ingest capability and REQUEST data from
   that ingest machine

2) see if there is a university site participating in the IDD that is
   willing to feed you

re:
> The existing LDM/EDEX server is configured at awips.bellicorp.net with
> an IP of 54.86.91.251. It has been properly configured with reverse DNS
> as the mailing lists suggest based on the errors in the log I've attached.

Very good.  This will make life easier for an upstream site that is
willing to feed you.

re:
> I'm assuming the error here is the fact that my server is not configured
> with at upstream IDD host to allow connections.

Correct.

re:
> I've left it set as
> idd.unidata.ucar.edu in ldmd.conf. I'm not sure if this is intended to
> be a public upstream host or not.

We operate the top level IDD relay node idd.unidata.ucar.edu to support
the U.S. university community.  We do feed other sites when there is a
measurable benefit to the Unidata community as a whole in providing the
feed.

re:
> What do I need to do to have an upstream LDM provide a downstream feed
> to my host?

If you are unable/unwilling to establish your own NOAAPort ingest capability
(which is not all that hard, but requires the installing and maintaining a 
C-band
satellite dish), you will have to find an existing IDD participant that has
the datastream(s) that you are interested in and is willing to feed you,
potentially in a quid-pro-quo arrangement.

The best way to see if there is somebody that is willing to feed you is to:

- subscribe to the address@hidden email list that we maintain

  Unidata HomePage
  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu

    Support -> Mailing Lists
    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support/index.html#mailinglists

  Click on the 'show mailing list actions' link for ldm-users and
  subscribe (NB: you must be subscribed to any of the email lists
  we maintain before you can post).

- and/or, subscribe to the address@hidden email list

- post a request for feed(s) to the list(s)

re:
> Thanks in advance.

No worries.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: DBI-990675
Department: Support IDD
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed