On Apr 17, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Dale Seaburg wrote:
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?
Look at the Davis and LaCrosse directories in the Xastir sources.
There are shims in there which do similar things to what you're
talking about, 'cuz the apps that talk to the weather stations
logged directly to MySQL. Xastir then uses a shim to talk to the
database to snag the weather data.
Something similar could be created for the Peet Bros. versions and
PostgreSQL I'm sure.
Yes, I looked at both. That will be good for extracting archived
data from a database. I'll also need the other part for extracting,
formatting and archiving the data from the Peet Bros 2000. I think I
can do that based on my original weather software. I did look at
wview as suggested by Bob, N4MRV. Too bad they don't support Peet.
They do support four other weather stations. And, they are open-
source, so I should be able to take one of those four stations and
mangle it (er, massage it) into a peet-look-alike and have my cake
and eat it too.
Thanks guys!
Now, on to my GUI rapid-IDE-challenged friend, Curt, et al... hi hi
You keep asking about GUI stuff... We currently hand-craft our
Motif widgets using generic C calls. We're the wrong guys to ask!
hi hi
OK, to be honest, I am very impressed with the whole xastir
development team. The results (user-interface and underlying code))
are excellent! I suppose one reason for hand-crafting the user-
interface is to make it platform independent. I would hope that any
future development would/could have a good IDE to facilitate quick
and easy windows/controls creation and manipulation. I guess I've
been spoiled by the free Visual Studio 2008 Express in the windows
world. With VS/E you still can get down on your hands-n-knees and
twiddle the C code as necessary. But, for the user-interface
(notice, I avoided the "gui" term hi hi) a good IDE will be hard to
beat.
73 - Dale. KG5LT
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