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On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, David K. Magee wrote: > > Hello, we've finally received our new Noaa Weather Wire Service > receiver. > > On the old system, product headers were in the PIL format (NEWSWRLA). > In order to get LDM to ingest under the old system, > I had to use this entry in my ldmd.conf > > exec "afos -v -b 4800 -p none /dev/ttya" > > On the new system, they have switched to WMO headers, and the baud rate > has increased to 9600bps. I've tried a few variants > of entries in my ldmd.conf with different results: > > exec "afos -v -b 9600 -p none /dev/ttya" - works fine, but labels > the data stream as AFOS, but the products have WMO headers. > > > exec "ddplus -v -b 9600 -p none /dev/ttya" - again, it seems to work > fine, however, I get occasional errors reported in the ldmd.log > file: > > Sep 20 19:54:02 gargoyle pqact[9504]: file: -overwrite > -strip -close data/files/ASUS41.KBUF > > Sep 20 19:54:06 gargoyle ddplus[9505]: Lone ETX > error 1455 -01 ZCZC00 BUFS 201954 > > Sep 20 19:54:07 gargoyle ddplus[9505]: 1331 20000920195407.865 > DDPLUS 000 FPUS73 KAPX 201951 /pNOWAPN > > Sep 20 19:54:07 gargoyle pqact[9504]: 1331 20000920195407.865 > DDPLUS 000 FPUS73 KAPX 201951 /pNOWAPN > > Sep 20 19:54:07 gargoyle pqact[9504]: file: -overwrite > -strip -close data/files/FPUS73.KAPX > > > So I have two questions: > > 1) Is anyone using ingesting "new" NWWS data with LDM? David, Can't answer this question. > > 2) What is a lone ETX error ? > The ETX is an "end of text" error for a text product. pqing was expecting an #define ETX 0x03 /* ^C */ to terminate the product. I suspect that your receiver is sending a garbled product to pqing once in a while and then pqing is noting this in the ldmd.log files. I would check the wires on the receiver and the hardware to improve the error rate. Robb... > I'm running LDM 5.1.2 > > Thanks for any ideas/comments/suggestions! > > David > > > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================