-->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
Mark
Hope this isn't covered somewhere and I missed it. I turned off all the Transitional Whips, and all the LEDs turn off and back on again for every update. Is there a way to stop that and just have it change only the airports that have changed?
Hmm, This was done to give a definitive update to the commands going to all the strings. There is no setting to remove this although if you don't mind diving into the code I can give you a line number to comment out which would achieve the same thing.
You would need to open the metar-v4.py file;
sudo nano -c /NeoSectional/metar-v4.py
In the version I'm working on (which will be slightly different from yours), line 605 contains;
turnoff(strip) #turn off led before repainting them. If Rainbow stays on, it has hung up before this.
So you can look for this line and add a '#' in front of it to disable this. It should look like;
# turnoff(strip) #turn off led before repainting them. If Rainbow stays on, it has hung up before this.
So look around line 600 or so, and you should see this. Let me know if this does what you are hoping for. - Mark
@markyharris Perfect, works great. I'm running V4 and it was line 593 in my code. Thanks
@markyharris Perfect, works great. I'm running V4 and it was line 593 in my code. Thanks
Great! Glad it worked. I'll play with this feature for a future release. Thanks - Mark
