---
name: "emwin"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "emwin"
version: "0.93-6"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/emwin"
---

# emwin(1)

Weather Daemon gathers NWS EMWIN data

## NAME

emwin, emwinser, emwinmcs, emwinmcr - Weather Daemon gathers NWS EMWIN data

## SYNOPSIS

**emwinser, emwinmcs** *port mode*

**emwinmcr \[ -o** *output-directory* \] \[-t  *temp-directory* \] \[-m  *output-mode* \] \[-b\] \[-d\] \[-h\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **emwinmcr**,**emwinser,**sattopgm,**utf2ps** and **emwinmcs** commands. The most up to date version can be found at http://www.amrad.org/skywarn.html

**emwinser, emwinmcs** This daemon gathers United States National Weather Service data.

This is only useful to you if you have a source of data, such as a radio and demodulator or a satellite downlink setup for EMWIN broadcasts.

Both of these programs take arguments to specify the serial port and the serial port settings. The port would be, e.g. /dev/ttyS1 and the settings are a string of speed,parity,bits,stop, e.g. 9600,N,8,1 . **emwinser** takes data from the serial port and saves it to a directory of files. **emwinmcs** takes data from the serial port and retransmits it via Multicast IP.

**emwinmcr** This daemon gathers EMWIN data via the MBone.

This is useful if you already have multicast connectivity. It receives data from the network and saves it in a directory of files (the *output directory* ).

**utf2ps** Converts EMWIN graphics files from EMWIN data stream (GPHxxx) to PostScript.

**sattopgm** Converts .sat file from EMWIN data stream to portable gray map image files.

These are useful to further convert graphics in the EMWIN data stream into formats more useful to internet clients.

## OPTIONS

The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the docs mentioned above.

## SEE ALSO

The latest version may be found at

*http://www.amrad.org/skywarn.html*

## FILES

Defaults are in

```

/etc/init.d/emwin
/usr/sbin/emwinmcr
/usr/sbin/emwinmcs
/usr/sbin/emwinser
/usr/bin/utf2ps
/usr/bin/sattopgm
```

## AUTHOR

emwinser, sattopgm, and utf2ps are written by **A. Maitland Bottoms \<aa4hs@amrad.org\>** emwinmcr and emwinmcs are by **Antonio Querubin \<tony@lava.net\>**

This manual page was written by A. Maitland Bottoms \<bottoms@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).