J.A.Romanov wrote:Hello all! Was a busy last 2 weeks, sorry. So, we just post release 4 of ver 1.1
As you know may be, NOAA weather servers change metar data internet location - new r4 take this in account. If you use 1.1 r1..r3, you need take new .xpl files only.
Distributive is here: http://www.jardesign.org/x-life/download/xlife.zip
Good day,
also, if you run a Mac this is posted ...
Posted in Technical Support - Cubby's Corner
As most people know, the NOAA web server that provides X-Plane with its real-time weather has been shut down, and the data moved to a new server. X-Plane 10.50 will fixed this issue, but if you're still using an older version, you're stuck.
For Mac users, here's a short Applescript that addresses the problem. Save this script as an application, and you have a quick way to grab the current weather data.
Copy and paste into Script Editor, and change the file paths for the Download folder and X-Plane folder to match your own machine
-- Get the current hour in 24 hour format
tell (current date) to set Now to (its hours as string) & ":" & (its minutes as string) & ":" & its seconds as string
-- Add a leading zero if necessary
if (character 1 of Now) is not "1" then set Now to "0" & Now
-- Grab the first two digits as the hour
set Hour to characters 1 thru 2 of Now as text
-- Set the download URL and the location of the file
-- These paths should be modified to match the locations on your own machine
set WeatherURL to "http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observat … ar/cycles/" & Hour & "Z.TXT"
set DownloadPath to "/Users/jimroyal/Downloads/METAR.rwx"
set XplaneMETAR to "/Applications/X-Plane\\ 9/METAR.rwx"
-- Download the weather file
do shell script "curl -L " & WeatherURL & " -o " & DownloadPath
-- Move the weather fle to the X-Plane folder
do shell script "mv " & DownloadPath & " " & XplaneMETAR
Happy Flying,
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