Speaking of peet bros 2100, I have a model 2000. I've had it since
at least 1999, and I think before that. I had an i-Opener that I had
loaded linux (2.2.16) on about then. It had a 6gb drive. I have
weather data back to 1999. I was loading it into a postgresql
database. I had written a C program to read the data, format it and
append to a csv file for each day (year + julian day). I then
presented it in simple tabluar format on the screen showing the
current day's temp, wind speed, humidity etc along with the high and
low for the day.
I now have retired the i-Opener, replacing it with a TC1100 I got off
ebay last year. It has been upgraded to a 100gb drive and 1.5gb of
RAM and is doing a nice job of Xubuntu 8.10 and xastir 1.9.5. It
will become my new home station dedicated to xastir and weather
station. My current xastir (dual-boot) PC did not have any weather
data on it.
Now, for some help. I want to be able to connect the weather data to
APRS via xastir *and* be able to do as I have in the past - log to
postgresql and be able to not just have a tty-style display of
weather data, but a gui with graphing capability of user-selected
weather data elements and date ranges. That is my goal.
1. Is there anything available today to do close to what I want and
open-source?
2. If not, what would the guru's suggest as a good gui tool set to
use? I don't need to be cross-platform, but I suppose it probably
ought to be a consideration, if others would like to use it.
A little background about myself:
My last major project was written in C# using Visual Studio 8, so I'm
spoiled by an very good IDE that hides the implementation details
from you as you develop the windows, but they're still there if you
want to do specialize stuff. I also used postgresql as my dbms of
choice. I did a lot of custom C# coding behind the windows and
controls. C# was my real intro to OO coding. In the past, OO has
always seemed to be a mystery to me. Prior experience was with
Access, VB (and FORTRAN waaay before that). ;-) Oh yeah, and a bit
of Java (UGH!) And, before I forget, some C coding for the HamHUD.
That gives you a feel for where I've been. My Linux coding has been
at the playground level. Nothing serious at all.
I am willing to learn a new language, or more correctly a new gui
tool set. Even though C is no my strong suite, I can live with it.
I understand that Python could be a possible candidate.
Anyone willing to share their favorite tool set experiences? I
*hope* this isn't too off-topic.
73 - Dale. KG5LT
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