--- Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since Weather Display generates my weather webserver > pages, I'll be > keeping it around for the forseeable future. > > I could split off another serial connection from the > Ultimeter but > that would mean hanging another usb to serial > adaptor off of my > computer which I would rather not do. > > Any suggestions?
I'm not sure how Xastir handles weather data, so I'll leave that to someone else to answer (though I'm curious for the eventual time when I can actually put up a weather station). If Xastir wants a serial port instead of a file to read from, then you have a couple ways of sharing the port. The easiest way is obviously the second serial dongle if you're intending to keep two completely different machines. The harder way that doesn't require an additional adapter is to use a few bits of software to create virtual serial ports with the possibility of connecting them over the network. This second method depends on the configuration. If you can move your weather web page over to the Mac, you can compile and run everything under OS X. If you don't move it, you'll have to find software to work on both the Mac (compiled or otherwise) and on the Windows machine. Leaving the server on the Windows machine: The Windows machine would have to create two virtual ports and share one over the network. The Mac would create a virtual serial port via a network connection to the Windows machine. There's software for splitting up ports on Windows and making them available over network connections but I don't know how well they work. Some of them are commercial so you'll be paying. I think one that's rather popular is Franson GPSGate. The Mac only has to run a program called 'socat' which can turn a network connection into a virtual serial port. Moving the server to the Mac: The Mac would be running three small programs. One would be 'ser2net' http://sourceforge.net/projects/ser2net/ which can create a network connection to a serial port but allows multiple connections to that network port (as I understand it). Then the Mac runs two copies of socat to create two virtual serial ports. -Alex ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
