[time-nuts] Lady Heather v6 for Raspberry Pi......?

2021-06-04 Thread mp...@clanbaker.org
Hello, Time-Nutters-- One of several things keeping me off the streets and out of trouble these days is a home-brew system for downlinking and displaying imagery from the NOAA low-earth polar-orbit environmental satellites. A satellite tracking software package runs/controls the AZ and EL

Re: [time-nuts] Lady heather on a Raspberry pi

2018-11-11 Thread Attila Kinali
On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 15:03:37 +1100 Ken wrote: > One problem for me was turning off the screensaver in the pi- I wanted my > display to be on > 24/7, so I had to finish up installing maximus and xscreensaver, then disable > the > screensaver. I cant find my notes on disabling the screensaver,

Re: [time-nuts] Lady heather on a Raspberry pi

2018-11-11 Thread Richard Solomon
> Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:13 PM > To: time-nuts@lists.febo.com > Subject: [time-nuts] Lady heather on a Raspberry pi > > Lady Heather uses the DTR and RTS modem control signals to control the fan. > If you are using a USB-Serial converter the code should work as-is. H

Re: [time-nuts] Lady heather on a Raspberry pi

2018-11-09 Thread Ken
Thanks Mark- as soon as I read your reply the answer hit me- all I need to do is break out dtr & rts from the usb to serial adapter I am already using- I must be getting slow in my old age! I can put a small hole in the t'bolts lid to bring out a couple of wires from the db9 to a small driver

Re: [time-nuts] Lady heather on a Raspberry pi

2018-11-09 Thread Bryan _
: time-nuts on behalf of Richard Solomon Sent: November 9, 2018 6:12 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lady heather on a Raspberry pi I have a couple of older Raspberry PI's (Model B+ and PI 3 Model B that I would like to hook up to a Trimble T

Re: [time-nuts] Lady heather on a Raspberry pi

2018-11-09 Thread Richard Solomon
: time-nuts@lists.febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] Lady heather on a Raspberry pi Lady Heather uses the DTR and RTS modem control signals to control the fan. If you are using a USB-Serial converter the code should work as-is. Heather does not have any code specific to a particular type of hardware (suc

[time-nuts] Lady heather on a Raspberry pi

2018-11-08 Thread Mark Sims
Lady Heather uses the DTR and RTS modem control signals to control the fan. If you are using a USB-Serial converter the code should work as-is. Heather does not have any code specific to a particular type of hardware (such as the PI). If you are using the PI GPIO serial port, you would need

[time-nuts] Lady heather on a Raspberry pi

2018-11-08 Thread Ken
Hi, I have had Lady Heather running on a small pc for a number of years, controlling a thunderbolt- until the pc quietly died a couple of weeks ago. As I didn't have another spare pc, but I did have a couple of spare raspberry pi's, I thought to have a go at putting it on a Pi. Using the