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LAN broadcast / realtime.txt

Discussion and questions about Cumulus weather station software version 1. This section is the main place to get help with Cumulus 1 software developed by Steve Loft that ceased development in November 2014.
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Edwin67
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LAN broadcast / realtime.txt

Post by Edwin67 »

Hello all,

I'm new to this forum and am following Cumulus developments.
Are there any plans to broadcast the weather data over the local area network as an alternative to realtime.txt?

Past years I've been working on my own software for the VP2+ and use the LAN broadcast of VP2 data with success. It enables me to develop software anywhere in the LAN whilst data is available everywhere. Also add-ins could be developed more easily. It's a windows server service running on the background.

Lack of time forces me to look to other software products and development is at hold.

Edwin
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Re: LAN broadcast / realtime.txt

Post by steve »

Cumulus supports the xAP protocol, which is a form of broadcast. The amount of data being sent is somewhat limited - I simply implemented the 'standard' I was given.
Steve
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