We are excited to announce our production release of AWIPS 20.3.2-1. This release includes installers for CAVE (CentOS7, Windows, VMware Player, and MacOS), and for EDEX (CentOS7). This release uses RHEL7 (CentOS7), Java11 and Python3.
Today we're here to talk about the distributed architecture of Unidata's EDEX. Initially, the goal of Unidata's AWIPS team was to simplify the EDEX installation and design so that it could be run on one machine. However, because of the increase in data volumes and feeds, the need for distributing the workflow across more than one machine became apparent.
Today we're going to look at another python-awips example notebook. If you aren't familiar with python-awips, please take a look through our previous AWIPS Tips about the package. The notebook we're looking at today is about calculating accumulated precipitation and displaying a region of interest.
Today we're going to focus on a few specific tools found in the Tools menu in CAVE. All three tools are related to Distance. We'll take a look at the Distance Bearing, Distance Scale, and Distance Speed tools.
Today we're going to take a more in-depth look at some of the processes running on an EDEX server. EDEX makes use of a concept known as modes. A mode consists of include and exclude statements to enable or disable various capabilities of EDEX.
This week we are going to look at modifying the Cities Map resource by constraining the population based on information in the database. This work will be accomplished by modifying the specific bundle file using the Localization Perspective in CAVE.
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week we have an exciting update about python-awips! We are proud to officially announce a beta version 20 of python-awips that is compatible with our beta EDEX server (edex-beta.unidata.ucar.edu). This version of python-awips is available for download as a source code installation.
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week we're going to take a bit of a deep dive into a useful feature in CAVE: sampling. If you are new to AWIPS Tips, you can take a look at one of our first blogs, which also very briefly touches on sampling at the very end of the blog.
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we're going to talk about the Local Data Manager (LDM) and how it's used within AWIPS. LDM is also developed by Unidata, and is a powerful Unidata developed software tool that is used to acquire and distribute data between computers. LDM can be installed independently, however within AWIPS, it is included in the base EDEX installation along with EDEXbridge and many other software components. On EDEX machines it is and installed to /awips2/ldm.
Today we're going to talk about changing the default localization of your CAVE. When first starting CAVE after a fresh install or after removing caveData, you are prompted with a GUI to specify the EDEX you're connecting to and which site you want CAVE to localize as.
