Last release : 2.2.5
Date : September 21st 2025
Author : F6DQM

WX_PLAYER is the english version of the french COUCOU.
WX_PLAYER generates audio time beacon  and/or audio weather bulletin. 
WX_PLAYER handles datas from DAVIS and LACROSSE weather stations.
WX_PLAYER handles datas from APRS frames (UI-VIEW format) such as those available on the aprs.fi web site.
WX_PLAYER handles the weather datas of the METAR frames issued from airports.
WX_PLAYER may be used as a stand-alone program or connected to the SIMPLEX software to generate automatically secondary beacons for radio repeaters.

New information : The awiationweather site is renewed.
 The URL to access METAR data from the new site is like this :
 https://aviationweather.gov/api/data/metar?ids=ICAO&format=json
 where ICAO is your airport ICAO code.

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WX_PLAYER is also available
 - in french (COUCOU),
 - in german (WX_MODERATOR).
 - in spanish (WX_LOCUTOR).