AvareX TAF missing?

[Bradley Spatz]

Is it just me?  AvareX TAFs are no longer showing on the map or under the METAR tab for an airport (after a longpress from the map).  0.61 with several Android devices.

METARs are map rendered and available texually under longpress.

Perhaps something has changed, but problem fails siliently, so unable to assist without going deep into the Flutter IDE.

[Apps4av Support]

It was working yesterday. No change today and it's gone. Sometimes FAA data files are missing and this happens. Will look.

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[Bradley Spatz]

Bad news: CSV TAF (what AvareX was using) no longer supported from NOAA/NWS as reported on https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/#changes (/api/data/dataserver) and confirmed below:

From: Jason Rush - NOAA Affiliate

Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM

Subject: Re: AviationWeather.gov - Bug [B73Dcu]

To: Bradley, AWC Webmail <ncep....@noaa.gov>

Unfortunately, the CSV format for TAF data could not be carried over to the new DataServer API endpoint and that was the same code used to generate the cache files.  As best as I can recall, part of the problem with attempting to encode TAFs to CSV was the variable number of forecasts that could be included per TAF.  That issue does not apply to METARs.  We are sorry for the inconvenience this has caused but have had to streamline parts of the service provided in order to keep a maintainable system available.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM Bradley <aviationwea...@noaa.gov> wrote:

Name: Bradley

Category: Bug

Subject: TAF CSV cache missing?

/data/cache/tafs.cache.csv.gz is missing?

Only XML format is shown on https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/#cache

METARs have both XML and CSV. Thanks!

XML is still available via https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/#cache; CDATA has plain text representation so several parsing options.

One of the trade-offs of AvareX pushing Internet-data fetching to client is that FAA/provider changes require code changes and updates to every client install.  The legacy Avare used a server-based approach where any FAA/provider changes could be made there and the client interface remains stable.  Of course that means more server activity and storage, etc.  Trade-offs.

Let me know if I can help further.

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