Part 7 of this series is here <link>
I mentioned way back in part 1 that I visited a site and discussed a linux version of the AcuRite weather station interface with a guy on Valley Information Systems discussion board <link>. The person was the professed author of the VIS sofware that is provided by AcuRite and he has a greatly expanded and pretty cotton pickin' slick version that can be subscribed to as well. Michael Walsh is his name and he's pretty sharp, but very, very snarky.
You've all seen this, especially from some of the dweebs on the various forums that belittle every post that is put up on the site. I'd show you the post so you could get a feel for what I'm talking about, but he removed it. Yep, when I went back and posted about my success with reading the USB port on linux and starting to decode the various items, I got a subscription notice that my post had been moved to the archives. Which generally means it can still be found by a search on the forum, but it doesn't appear in the lists of posts.
Today, I got another notice and when I clicked on it:
The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you.
Heh, it looks like it's off the board entirely. When I looked for 'linux' on the board, there's been a couple of folk looking around for a linux version recently; I may have become competition for him.
Keep in mind, I don't know why he moved the posts, or why he eventually made them disappear, it could just be weird traffic or some accident. But it is cool that the posts of a successful, FREE, version that reads the AcuRite console's USB output on a little Raspberry Pi that doesn't tie up your home PC have disappeared.
But, once it's on the internet, it gets read, copied, backed up, mailed about, etc. Especially since a few folk have helped me on this project by finding bugs and running it a lot in their own home. I just typed "acurite raspberry pi" into Goodle and guess what site came up as the first entry? hee hee.
So, you weather station folk out there, folk that got one of these for Christmas, people that succumbed to the impulse of the cool packaging at Costco (I'm in that group) spread the word. If enough folk get involved, this could lead to a great weather station package. I just don't have the hardware, facilities, time, or diversity in my network to do a really good job.
But wouldn't it be cool
I mentioned way back in part 1 that I visited a site and discussed a linux version of the AcuRite weather station interface with a guy on Valley Information Systems discussion board <link>. The person was the professed author of the VIS sofware that is provided by AcuRite and he has a greatly expanded and pretty cotton pickin' slick version that can be subscribed to as well. Michael Walsh is his name and he's pretty sharp, but very, very snarky.
You've all seen this, especially from some of the dweebs on the various forums that belittle every post that is put up on the site. I'd show you the post so you could get a feel for what I'm talking about, but he removed it. Yep, when I went back and posted about my success with reading the USB port on linux and starting to decode the various items, I got a subscription notice that my post had been moved to the archives. Which generally means it can still be found by a search on the forum, but it doesn't appear in the lists of posts.
Today, I got another notice and when I clicked on it:
The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you.
Heh, it looks like it's off the board entirely. When I looked for 'linux' on the board, there's been a couple of folk looking around for a linux version recently; I may have become competition for him.
Keep in mind, I don't know why he moved the posts, or why he eventually made them disappear, it could just be weird traffic or some accident. But it is cool that the posts of a successful, FREE, version that reads the AcuRite console's USB output on a little Raspberry Pi that doesn't tie up your home PC have disappeared.
But, once it's on the internet, it gets read, copied, backed up, mailed about, etc. Especially since a few folk have helped me on this project by finding bugs and running it a lot in their own home. I just typed "acurite raspberry pi" into Goodle and guess what site came up as the first entry? hee hee.
So, you weather station folk out there, folk that got one of these for Christmas, people that succumbed to the impulse of the cool packaging at Costco (I'm in that group) spread the word. If enough folk get involved, this could lead to a great weather station package. I just don't have the hardware, facilities, time, or diversity in my network to do a really good job.
But wouldn't it be cool