METAR/TAF via SMS, Zoleo, and Spot X

[Kenny Taylor]

I picked up a Zoleo satellite communicator recently and noticed that I couldn't hit the Leidos METAR/TAF SMS service.

I built an e-mail responder that provides the same functionality and works with Zoleo. It should work with Spot X and cell phone SMS as well. Info is sourced from the AVWX web service.

To use it, send a message to flightweather@rocket-tech.net with one of the following in the body:

M or Metar followed by a 3-character or 4-character airport code
T or Taf followed by a 3-character or 4-character airport code
Help (or anything else) for instructions

 

[Rgbeard]

Problematic for me.

I've sent three different emails. I tried these lines, one at a time, in the body of the email.

MSDM
M SDM
Metar KSDM

none of the emails with those contents yielded results past this:


Rocket Tech Flight Weather Service
Send a request in the following format:
metar klax
taf klax

 

[Kenny Taylor]

Problematic for me.

Fixed it. I needed to tweak the code to ignore extra characters (signature line, disclaimer, etc.)

 

[Rgbeard]

Yep - FIXED! Awesomesauce!