[ldm-users] But what about the stepchild, NWWS?

• To: noaaport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: [ldm-users] But what about the stepchild, NWWS?
• From: Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:05:45 -0500 (CDT)

Hey everyone,

By now, you should be slinging rotten tomatoes at me, or
at least taking me off your Christmas card list this year

So, I decided to find out. In my ldmd.conf, I have:

EXEC    "noaaportIngester -m 224.0.1.1"
EXEC    "noaaportIngester -m 224.0.1.2"
EXEC    "noaaportIngester -m 224.0.1.3"
EXEC    "noaaportIngester -m 224.0.1.4"
EXEC    "noaaportIngester -m 224.0.1.5"
EXEC    "noaaportIngester -m 224.0.1.8"
EXEC    "noaaportIngester -m 224.0.1.9"
EXEC    "noaaportIngester -m 224.0.1.10"
EXEC    "noaaportIngester -m 224.1.1.1"

Notice that last entry: that's for the NOAA Weather Wire Service (NWWS).
NWWS is supposed to stay up...no matter what. So, after making
sure my Novra configuration was saved to receive NOAAport, I then went
to the data sheet:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/noaaport/document/AWIPS%20Program%20Receiver%20Configuration%20v1.1.pdf

/home/gilbert.sebenste% ldmadmin watch
(Type ^D when finished)

^C

Well, look at that! I saved that Novra configuration under a different
name. Now, if NOAAport goes down, I can log into the Novra using cmcs,
type "load x" sans quotes, where x is the name of my configuration file
for NWWS, and bingo! I'm on the air with text data, if nothing else. When
the outage is over, I log back into it and type "load y", where "y" is the
filename of my NOAAport reception configuration. By the way, one thing you
should know: you need to be on LDM 6.12.4 to do what I am doing. The LDM
6.12 series fixes several bugs, including two which crash the LDM...one of
them did so during a severe weather outbreak. :-(

Anyway, I hope this helps some of you as you switch over to the new feeds.

Gilbert

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