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any weather station software?
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i want to buy a weather station. nothing fancy.
there doesn't sam to be any stations or mac software.
antone know of any?
greg
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Funny you should ask that....
http://coldmac.macfixer.net
There is a company that makes a USB thermometer/hygrometer. You can capture this data from a simple command line app. From there, it is infinitely flexible. I have a PHP shell script (yes, PHP shell script) that runs every minute, polling for all of the data I want, then inserting it into a MySQL database. Then whenever you load the web page, I can grab the newest data as the 'current' data, and then I can do any number of other interesting statistical things with a few good database queries. I also use jQuery to make the temperature values on the page update in real time without reloading the page (in real time means every 30 seconds or so I believe).
Last winter, this setup worked great. This year, this old Mac has been crashing every few weeks. I'd love to replace it with an old Mac mini. No battery, but a much better form factor for the task at hand.
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thanks for your help, guys
greg
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