Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-21 Thread Peter Putnam
Mark, Thank you very much for the effort you put into the new Lady Heather Version 5 code. Comments from other linux users encouraged me to try my luck with a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. The code compiled without issue and runs perfectly. The pre-configured "heather.cfg" file is a nice touch, c

[time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available - date formats

2016-12-13 Thread Mark Sims
Well, one calendar did it In the most elegant way possible. They divided the year into 12 months of 30 days. Any days that were left over never happened and were spent doing things like drunken orgies which magically never happened since the extra days did not exist. 'Twas not a good thing t

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available - date formats

2016-12-13 Thread Graham / KE9H
How did the Mayans deal with leap seconds? --- Graham == On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 4:28 AM, Mark Sims wrote: > Heather defaults to the unambiguous format 13 DEC 2016. There is a > command for showing the date in the ISO format -ddd where ddd is the > day of the year. > > I just added back t

[time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available - date formats

2016-12-13 Thread Mark Sims
Heather defaults to the unambiguous format 13 DEC 2016. There is a command for showing the date in the ISO format -ddd where ddd is the day of the year. I just added back the -mm-dd format. It was in there at one time, but got lost somewhere along the way... Why can't the world sta

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-13 Thread David J Taylor
Mark, While I have not (yet) used Lady Heather, I plan on doing so as soon as I can get my GPSDO. However, I do have a feature suggestion. You have an option that allows dates to be expressions in the European format DD-MM- vs. the US format of MM-DD-. What about an option to express d

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-13 Thread timenut
Mark, While I have not (yet) used Lady Heather, I plan on doing so as soon as I can get my GPSDO. However, I do have a feature suggestion. You have an option that allows dates to be expressions in the European format DD-MM- vs. the US format of MM-DD-. What about an option to express dates

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-12 Thread Alberto di Bene
On 12/12/2016 7:38 PM, Azelio Boriani wrote: Maybe that the "Start In" field in the Properties Panel must be set if windows is not in US language mode. When windows is italian, for example, the Program Files folder becomes Programmi. Azelio, none of my PCs is set for Italian languages... th

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-12 Thread Azelio Boriani
Maybe that the "Start In" field in the Properties Panel must be set if windows is not in US language mode. When windows is italian, for example, the Program Files folder becomes Programmi. On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:53 AM, David J Taylor wrote: > Hello Mark, > > many thanks for your immense and in

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-12 Thread David J Taylor
Hello Mark, many thanks for your immense and invaluable work! I am using the trimble thunderbold together with LH version 3 all the last years with success, I like your program very much. I downloaded and installed today the version 5, but I have some problems because it looks like my windows 7

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread Mike Millen
Confirmation... setting the "Start In" field to match the "Target" field allows LH to use the heather.cfg in the Target directory, irrespective of where the shortcut is placed. Mike On 12/12/2016 06:44, Mike Millen wrote: On 11/12/2016 23:23, Alberto di Bene wrote: On 12/12/2016 12:00 AM,

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread Mike Millen
On 11/12/2016 23:23, Alberto di Bene wrote: On 12/12/2016 12:00 AM, John Miles wrote: But when Heather's initial working directory isn't in the usual Program Files hierarchy, it tries to load the .cfg file from the same directory as the executable. In my case the ,cfg files was in the same

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread n2lym
Arnold, I also set the time zone using the 'tz' command while LH is running. Sorry, I forgot to mention that. On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 07:52 PM, Arnold Tibus wrote: Hi Mike, my installation did work the same way as you describe, the program did start and showed UTC - but as I am living

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread John Miles
> As said, if I put the .cfg file in the system32 directory I can set eg. > the new time zone. > Strange, if I enable eg. the esc esc command to shut off LH, it does the > job well, but with the exception for the time zone setting, this and all > the other commands once set are not anymore to be di

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread Arnold Tibus
Hi Mike, my installation did work the same way as you describe, the program did start and showed UTC - but as I am living in another time zone and I did want to show CET (or in german MEZ), I tried to modify this by using the config file in the program directory and not to append the commands in t

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread Gar Fisher
Compiles and runs perfect on Ubuntu 16.04, and auto-detects the tbolt right away. THANKS! -Gar On 2016-12-11, at 4:09 PM, n2lym wrote: > Hi Arnold, > > I'm running windows pro 64bit, it installed in Program Files(x86). I made a > shortcut on the desktop that points to heather.exe with the

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread n2lym
Hi Arnold, I'm running windows pro 64bit, it installed in Program Files(x86). I made a shortcut on the desktop that points to heather.exe with the /3 switch because my lucent box is there on serial port 3.  Lady Heather auto detected and all is well. Many thanks to Mark and John for this gre

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread Arnold Tibus
John, I am a none in programming, but can anybody tell me why it does work? I tried it now several times with different settings for the time zone ... I am running WIN7 pro 64 and the program did install in Program Files(86). Editing the heather.cfg in this directory does have no effects ... ??? A

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi Mark, Many thanks! I can report that it built without intervention on my Debian linux. I look forward to test it out on various receivers. For linux you probably want to set CFLAGS and include -g in the build. Running with valgrind does not come out clean, which is a good test to help catch

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread Alberto di Bene
On 12/12/2016 12:00 AM, John Miles wrote: But when Heather's initial working directory isn't in the usual Program Files hierarchy, it tries to load the .cfg file from the same directory as the executable. In my case the ,cfg files was in the same directory as the executable, outside the "Pro

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread John Miles
Yeah, that's probably something we should fix. Installation programs don't normally set that field at all. But when Heather's initial working directory isn't in the usual Program Files hierarchy, it tries to load the .cfg file from the same directory as the executable. This is something I do

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread Alberto di Bene
On 12/11/2016 1:25 AM, Mark Sims wrote: The heather.cfg file has a com port setting (/1u) and a /rxa (receiver auto-detect) command line option setting which gets processed before the settings on the command line. Try editing heather.cfg file and change the /1u command to /0 Problem fixed.

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread paul swed
Mark Thank you for the secret on setting the receiver I was making it way to hard. The 3801 absolutely has a problem. Locks and everything just fine. Takes about 20 minutes from a cold start. It will accept commands I am not getting the correct output back. Everything had worked so it is a real pro

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread John Miles
Hmm, that doesn't make any sense at all. Nothing should be written to \windows\system32 by the installer under any conditions. -- john, KE5FX Miles Design LLC > Many thanks Brian! > > I found it! > In Windows 7 (10?) this file must be copied into the system32 directory > of windows in order

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread Arnold Tibus
t; You should be able to read/write this copy. At least that was my experience > during installing. > > > > > -=Bryan=- > > > > From: time-nuts on behalf of Arnold Tibus > > Sent: December 11, 2016 10:39 AM > To: time-nuts@fe

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread John Miles
> It seems during the install at least on Windows 10 that it does not give the > full permissions to the files. I just gave the folder the correct permissions > after the isntall. If you go to help, at the bottom of the screen it tells > you > where during the install another copy of the heather.

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread Bryan _
Heather Version 5 is now available Hello Mark, many thanks for your immense and invaluable work! I am using the trimble thunderbold together with LH version 3 all the last years with success, I like your program very much. I downloaded and installed today the version 5, but I have some problems

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread Jim Littlefield
Version 5.00 is working well with my 58503A, but I did find one annoying behavior. If LH is the active application, as in it has keyboard focus, I find my screen saver will not activate. Jim WN1X On 12/11/2016 11:45:10 AM, paul swed wrote: Mark I am trying to use Heather with a z3801. I have t

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread Alberto di Bene
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Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread Arnold Tibus
Hello Mark, many thanks for your immense and invaluable work! I am using the trimble thunderbold together with LH version 3 all the last years with success, I like your program very much. I downloaded and installed today the version 5, but I have some problems because it looks like my windows 7 d

[time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread Mark Sims
At the bottom of the command line help screen dialog, it should show what command was causing problems. You should not need to do anything. Z3801A should be auto-detected. You can skip the auto-detect by editing the heather.cfg file and changing the /rxa command to /rxz Are you using a null

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-11 Thread paul swed
Mark I am trying to use Heather with a z3801. I have tried numbers of combinations of what should set the system to the Z receiver. But none seem to work. It immediately brings up the help screen and I assume that says the command is bad. I have no problem making the TBolt work. Wonder if you could

[time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-10 Thread Mark Sims
The heather.cfg file has a com port setting (/1u) and a /rxa (receiver auto-detect) command line option setting which gets processed before the settings on the command line. Try editing heather.cfg file and change the /1u command to /0 - > I started it under Windows XP S

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-10 Thread Alberto di Bene
On 12/10/2016 4:56 PM, Mark Sims wrote: Lady Heather version 5.0 is now available for download from: http://www.ke5fx.com/heather/readme.htm Thanks for this new version. I started it under Windows XP SP3, with the option /rxx as I currently have my TBolt connected to another PC, but what

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-10 Thread Adrian Godwin
Now running for me on Linux twice : one with a KS24361 and the other with a Res-T (rx only). Thanks ! On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > Well there goes the neighborhood :) … > > It used to be that the absolutely terrific Lady Heather only worked on > TBolt’s. > That mad

[time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-10 Thread Mark Sims
Yes, most definitely... Send them to me and I'll dispose of them properly... no charge. The Tbolt series is still the best GPSDO out there. Infinitely tweakable, no sawtooth error. --- > Now that it’s even more terrific (THANKS !!!), and no longer is TBolt only, > do I dump

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-10 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Well there goes the neighborhood :) … It used to be that the absolutely terrific Lady Heather only worked on TBolt’s. That made the TBolt a slam dunk when it came to recommending a GPSDO. Now that it’s even more terrific (THANKS !!!), and no longer is TBolt only, do I dump all my TBolts ?

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-10 Thread paul swed
To everyone that has made this release available. Thank you ever so much. What a Holiday present. Can't wait to get it going on the z3801. Yah. But I can also see a raspberry pi very quickly just for fun. Regards Paul WB8TSL On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Tim Lister wrote: > On Sat, Dec 1

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-10 Thread Tim Lister
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 9:21 AM, wrote: > Thanks for the new version of Lady Heather! I have already downloaded, > compiled it and it is running well on my linux box, but I did have one minor > problem. > I am running Fedora 24 (have not upgraded my Time/Radio PC to Fedora 25 yet) > and follo

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-10 Thread bjones0
ark Sims >Sent: Dec 10, 2016 10:56 AM >To: "time-nuts@febo.com" >Subject: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available > >Lady Heather version 5.0 is now available for download from: > http://www.ke5fx.com/heather/readme.htm > >Many thanks to John Miles f

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-10 Thread David J Taylor
Lady Heather version 5.0 is now available for download from: http://www.ke5fx.com/heather/readme.htm Many thanks to John Miles for hosting the distribution and his work on the Windows installer, PDF documentation file, readme file, and bring an all-around good guy. Heather now has some prop

[time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-10 Thread Mark Sims
Lady Heather version 5.0 is now available for download from: http://www.ke5fx.com/heather/readme.htm Many thanks to John Miles for hosting the distribution and his work on the Windows installer, PDF documentation file, readme file, and bring an all-around good guy. Heather now has some prope