Fix issue #1 BEACON EXEC abnormal close messages in aprx.log

noaacap/DEBIAN/control

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package: noaacap
-Version: 0.7.3
+Version: 0.8
 Section: hamradio
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Dan Srebnick <k2dls at k2dls.net>

noaacap/DEBIAN/copyright

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-Copyright: 2017 Daniel L. Srebnick <k2dls@k2dls.net>
+Copyright: 2017-2018 Daniel L. Srebnick <k2dls@k2dls.net>
 License: BSD-2-clause
 Files: *

noaacap/usr/local/bin/noaacap.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 ##
 ## See /usr/local/share/noaacap/CHANGELOG for change history
 ##
-version = "0.7"
+version = "0.8"
 
 import sys
 import pytz
@@ -249,6 +249,13 @@ for i in range(0, count):
          if parms[j].valueName.string == 'UGC':
             zcs = parms[j].value.string
 
+      # This handles expired messages found to contain no UGC
+      try:
+         zcs
+      except:
+         log.debug('No zcs in message')
+         continue
+
       type =  pp[bytes(Phenomena, 'utf-8')].decode('utf-8')
 
       if Action == "CAN":

noaacap/usr/local/share/noaacap/CHANGELOG

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 noaacap changelog
 ##
+Version: 0.8
+Not Released Yet
+Fix alerts without UGC causing BEACON EXEC abnormal close
+##
 Version: 0.7
 Release: September 28, 2017
 Added myResend parameter to control message resends.

noaacap/usr/local/share/noaacap/LICENSE

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 BSD 2-Clause License
 
-Copyright (c) 2017, Daniel L. Srebnick
+Copyright (c) 2017-2018, Daniel L. Srebnick
 All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without