Not getting admin text messages

[Saberhawk09]

It's been quite a while since I used my decoding setup, and I remembered admin text messages where a thing. I had never gotten one, and was wondering if the satellites don't send them out anymore or can I enable decoding them somehow like EMWIN. Sorry if this is not the correct place, I rarely use GitHub.

[agrif]

I've also stopped receiving any text products, even though my config file (the default installed by make install) seems to include them. I took my receiver down about a year ago and just put it back up, and something in between broke. Anybody know what's up?

[spinomaly]

I believe it might be due to a format change on the filename. It doesn't seem to include the timestamp anymore. TextHandler is expecting a timestamp in the filename and if it doesn't exist it exits without generating the file. A fix seems fairly straightforward depending on the requirement. Not sure if Pieter is actively monitoring. I'm happy to contribute.

Disclaimer: I have only been a user for around 2 weeks. I have the code loaded into VS2017 with it being configured to compile and run the code remotely on a RPI4 allowing me to develop/debug in VS.

[pietern]

Thanks for posting! And thanks for the fix, @spinomaly.

Any chance someone could send over an LRIT file of a text message? Perhaps there still is a timestamp in there somewhere, just encoded in a different way. If not, I'm happy to merge the PR that uses the current local time.

Including a time in the filename seems like the right thing to do, in case the contents of this file ever changes.

[Saberhawk09]

Thanks for posting! And thanks for the fix, @spinomaly.

Any chance someone could send over an LRIT file of a text message? Perhaps there still is a timestamp in there somewhere, just encoded in a different way. If not, I'm happy to merge the PR that uses the current local time.

Including a time in the filename seems like the right thing to do, in case the contents of this file ever changes.

Thanks so much for the help guys! My decoding station is currently out of commission, but when I eventually fix it I'll try this.

[spinomaly]

Welcome! Attached is a text LRIT file that just occured.

GOES_WEST_Admin_message_updated_2020.11.23.zip

[Saberhawk09]

Welcome! Attached is a text LRIT file that just occured.

GOES_WEST_Admin_message_updated_2020.11.23.zip

Awesome, now how would someone go about updating their config to RX these by default? Also can I decode this LRIT file manually with goesproc?

[spinomaly]

I don't think goesproc will process this file. Same issue whether streaming or loading files. However, I have never tried processing files. I am only processing streams at the moment.

[Saberhawk09]

I don't think goesproc will process this file. Same issue whether streaming or loading files. However, I have never tried processing files. I am only processing streams at the moment.

Ok then, but am I still able to modify the goesrecv/goesproc config to enable reception of admin text?

[spinomaly]

Add this to goesproc config file. However, no files will be saved until a fix is implemented.

[[handler]]
type = "text"
origin = "other"
directory = "./text/{time:%Y-%m-%d}"
filename = "{filename}_{time:%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ}"

[Saberhawk09]

Ah ok, so this is preemptive until a patch can be made? Like I said, thanks for your help I really appreciate it. These kind of things just bug me lol.

[spinomaly]

If you want to use a fix I implemented to enable saving of admin messages you can get the latest in my repo.