metarproxy is a caching proxy server for METAR data strings written in
-Perl. It can be used from the FlightGear flight simulator to:
+Perl. It can be used to:
- provide METAR data for machines without internet connection
- centralize METAR fetching: one machine in a network runs the proxy, all
unset. To set a particular proxy server for HTTP download, use one of
these methods:
-- set http_proxy globally: EXPORT http_proxy=http://localhost:3128/
+- set http_proxy globally: export http_proxy=http://localhost:3128/
- or on the command line: $ http_proxy=http://localhost:3128/ metarproxy
- unset http_proxy: $ http_proxy= metarproxy
- use the command line option: $ metarproxy --proxy=http://localhost:3128/
-- set the option globally: EXPORT METARPROXY="-yhttp://localhost:3128"
+- set the option globally: export METARPROXY="-yhttp://localhost:3128"
$ metarproxy --download 0-2 ... download first three hours after
midnight GMT
-These three methods can be use in combination:
+These three methods can be used in combination:
$ metarproxy --download 6h 0-2 4
with station IDs:
$ metarproxy --record --file=$FG_HOME/station-list
- $ metarproxy --record EDDM --file=tmp/Austria --file=/tmp/Hungary
+ $ metarproxy --record EDDM --file=/tmp/Austria --file=/tmp/Hungary
These files simply contain station IDs separated by spaces in one
or more lines:
it run at a simulated time for which you actually have cached METAR
data:
- $ fgfs --proxy=localhost:5509 --start-date-lat=2005:01:12:12:00:00
+ $ fgfs --enable-real-weather-fetch --proxy=localhost:5509 \
+ --start-date-lat=2005:01:12:12:00:00
FlightGear will then fetch the metar data from the proxy as if it
were weather.noaa.gov. If no appropriate data set is found at all,
$Id$
-Melchior FRANZ <mfranz@aon.at>, 2005/1/24
+Melchior FRANZ <mfranz # aon : at>, 2005/1/24