Simpler update of satellites.json from file
This is a wish rather than a bug.
Celestrak has an appeal out for users to use less bandwidth. Suppose I
have several accounts. (I have, all belonging to one human being.) I can
download all the TLE files with a shell script using Curl. Then I can
update satellites.json from the concatenation of those files.
It's cumbersome -- I need to navigate to the TLE file each time I want
to update satellites.json. I'd like the path to that TLE file to be kept in
config.ini, and loaded each time I start Stellarium. No extra work for
the user, and less bandwidth load for Celestrak. Might this be done?
Another motive I have is that because of firewalls/proxies (is Stellarium
proxy-savvy?) I can't access all my sources at the same time. But I can
script the process so that if any source can't be reached it simply
retains the former file rather than deleting all satellites from the
unreachable source.
Thanks,
Paul Gilmartin
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