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Offline stormchaser911

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Weather Alearts that print out on your printer
« on: February 24, 2019, 06:16:32 PM »
Hello gang is there a program  that sends weather alearts to your printer to print out in your area? I would be willing to pay for this service. Thank you

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Re: Weather Alearts that print out on your printer
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2019, 07:19:22 PM »
Not aware of a specific (PC) program that will receive WX alerts (presumably from NOAA via radio or internet) and send them to a printer.
However, there are several sort of workarounds:
1. This might not fit, but there are marine (and coastal) WX broadcasts called Weatherfax and Navtex, from NOAA in the US, met bureaus in other countries, which can be received by specialized devices and can have either an internal printer or an external one. They're pretty expensive, Furuno makes some of them. There are marine satellite services too, very expensive.

2. NOAA and other WX services have email weather alert services that can be set up to send notifications. Some email clients can then be set up to filter such incoming messages and send them to a printer. Probably your best option.

3. Without a printer, there is good old NOAA Weather Radio, which gives audio and visual alerts on the receiving radios.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiofax
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navtex
« Last Edit: February 24, 2019, 07:22:04 PM by Jstx »

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Re: Weather Alearts that print out on your printer
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2019, 07:30:23 PM »
Weather Message - may be able to do that.

https://www.weathermessage.com/Products/WeatherWeatherAlerting/WeatherMessage.aspx

I use it for email/txt alerts
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Re: Weather Alearts that print out on your printer
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2019, 09:21:32 PM »
Epson printers  have the facility to have an email address.

eg. ????????@print.epsonconnect.com
Imagine what you will KNOW tomorrow !

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Re: Weather Alearts that print out on your printer
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2019, 09:49:06 PM »
Beteljuice has the right idea. You can schedule anything to be emailed. Not only do Epson printers have an email address but so do HP printers. This is a free service through HP ePrint.  <your-printer>@hpeprint.com. By default the ePrint address is some random string of characters. But once you register you can change the name to a more friendly custom name.
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Re: Weather Alearts that print out on your printer
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2019, 11:32:09 AM »
I do the HP thing - works fine.  You can see a list of email alert services here:  https://www.weather.gov/subscribe/  Or if you want to roll your own, say via a Davis use this:  http://www.tobaccovilleweather.com/WeatherlinkEmail.html

(Back in the day I worked for this VP who INSISTED that every email he received was to be automagically printed.  After a couple of months of deforesting the Amazon, he agreed it was not such a great idea and switched to CTRL+p  :)  )
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