mpad

• Crash handler bug fix; missing import

Maintenance release with tons of changes under the hood.

• WX data
  • June 1st deprecation of OpenWeatherMap 2.5 OneCall API due to OWM now requiring credit card data for WX requests via OWM 3.0 OneCall API.
  • Successor: met.no API - which does not even require an API key. Thank you Meteorologisk Institutt for this great service!
  • WX forecasts now use the user's coordinates, meaning that a "morning" data request is no longer tied to UTC but actually uses the user's time zone. Dealing with time zones is a giant pain, so expect potential issues. All local tests were successful, though.
• Other changes
  • Optional Apprise crash handler which will send mpad's log file to dedicated addresses. This allows me to receive the log file in case of crashes.
  • several under-the-hood updates

• Fix for the requirements.txt file which will take care of pillow's ImageDraw.textsize() deprecation in version 10.x and later
• Note: As of the date of this release, the fixed version of py-staticmaps has not yet been released to PyPi. Therefore, the dependencies file pulls this package straight from the author's Github repo.
• Details: https://github.com/flopp/py-staticmaps/pull/32

Added:

• parser_test.py will collect all external dependencies in case they are missing on the user's hard drive. You can now rum initial mpad tests without starting the daemon first.
• posmsg command output now receives a static image of the user's position along with a red marker

Updated:

• repeatermap.de URL was outdated; updated to new URL
• airport data URL was outdated; updated to new URL
• all external file names have now been defined in the mpad_config.py file for easier modification access

❗IMPORTANT CHANGES - read carefully❗

• The previously used external mgrs.py module has been replaced by PyPi's mgrs module; if you have installed MPAD in the past, please ensure to delete the local mgrs.py installation on your hard drive.
• Installations on Linux may now require new external dependencies libgeos-dev and libopenjp2-7
• pillow / py-staticmaps fixed version dependency; needs to be resolved at a later point in time, see https://github.com/flopp/py-staticmaps/pull/32

• Safety net for issue https://github.com/joergschultzelutter/mpad/issues/23 in case the METAR code is called without a valid airport name

• Introduction of a new taf keyword for retrieving TAF data - see issues https://github.com/joergschultzelutter/mpad/issues/18 and https://github.com/joergschultzelutter/mpad/issues/19
• By default, the metar keyword now only returns METAR data and the taf keyword only returns TAF data
• Add the full keyword to both commands in order to receive both METAR and TAF data responses via a single command, e.g. metar EDDF full or taf EDDF full both return METAR and TAF data for EDDF

• Updated the aviationweather URL (see issue https://github.com/joergschultzelutter/mpad/issues/18)

• Bugfix for retrieving CWOP data from findu.com, thus preventing program crashes (per APRSSIG December 2023 bulletin, the site might have lost its maintainer)

• Bug fixes related to parsing html source data

• added requirements.txt - very long overdue :-)
• fixed multiple modules wrt error handling for the requests library

Bugfix: program crash in case CWOP page did contain no data.

• Bugfix make_pretty_aprs_messages

Bugfix for 'riseset' command; crash when Skyfield did not return a complete set of rise/set timestamps

Bugfix for cases where a radiosonde site is unable to be accessed

Changes to the Radiosonde module:

• remove restriction to APRS type "o" (object) as Radiosonde call signs seem to start their life cycle as APRS stations (type "l")
• Enhanced the module for returning the fully enriched Habhub.org URL (with uuid) to the user
• Documentation updates

Bugfix: Deutscher Wetterdienst broadcast warnings were sent out as Unicode message and not as plain ASCII messages

• Option to enforce outgoing message content as UTF-8 with new keyword unicode
• MPAD has received its personal APRS 'TOCALL' identifier - yay. Thank you WB4APR.
• Minor updates to the code and its documentation

Radiosonde bugfix for cases where the clmb value is negative

Bugfix DWD Code

Updated radiosonde landing prediction settings per DB4BIN
Support for Deutscher Wetterdienst WX warning bulletins