-->September 6th, 2025<--
Thank you to GolfCharlie and Claude Code for fixing the code to work with the newly changed FAA API! They have saved a lot of time. A new image has been created and will be uploaded today and available later tonight. If you don't want or need the image, you can visit https://github.com/markyharris/livesectional and incorporate the changes into your board now.
--->September 5th, 2025<--
There has been another change to the FAA API which has again broke the map. We are currently working on this. Check back for fix. If you have the fix please post it. - Mark
Every now and then the LED map will freeze up, I will reboot the map and then all the LED's are not lit up. It may stay that way all day or 30 minutes or so and then start working. All the while the LCD's are showing the winds. V4.501
Hi Ron, there was a small change to the call made to the FAA site where it will timeout if the FAA site doesn't respond properly. I'm guessing this is what you are seeing. This change has been incorporated in the software on github ( https://github.com/markyharris/livesectional/blob/master/metar-v4.py ), but I haven't built a new image for it yet as I'm giving it time to run on my test bench map to be sure its working. So far its working well.
If you'd like to manually add this change, I can try to help you. Otherwise, if you give me some time, I'll be building a new image and posting it to the downloads page. - Mark
@markyharris Ok, that sounds about right. I don't know what to do with the GitHub files so I'll wait for you to publish a new version.
Thanks,
Ron
Hi Ron,
I put a new image together, V4.503 and Bill posted it to the downloads page. So give it a try and let me know if you still have the same issues or not. Remember to download your config, airports and hmdata files before making the change so you can easily upload them to the new image. - Mark
The SD card has been flashed and data has been uploaded, it rebooted fine and is running! If there are any issues I'll report back. Thanks for the help.
Thanks for letting me know its working properly. - Mark
