AllStarWx Version 1.1 Released

AllStarWx 1.1 is now officially released.  This version has these new features:

• Supports Festival and Pico TTS engines.  (They are not as good as Google TTS, but easier to setup.)
• Ability to read the NWS headline for new products.  (You will have to modify your [NewMessage] Text entry.)
• Ability to ready the NWS announcement headline instead of the standard headline.  This headline includes additional information.  (This requires you to modify the [NewMessage] Text entry.)
• Ability to turn off watch and advisory products in the tail message.
• Forecasts and Observations can now be requested through the background service.  This makes the responses more responsive.  It still takes some time to request the data and process it through the TTS engine.
• Added the ability to call a script when new products are issued at the county level.  The script is passed the county identifier and the event type.  This script can be used to do specific things based on the associated county.
• Upgrade the application to .NET 8.

This version has been tested on 4 different nodes.  All of the features appear to work properly.  As with any update, I recommend that you backup your configuration in \usr\local\AllStarWx.

You will find the revised manual and installers at https://www.weathermessage.com/allstarwx.aspx.