Subj : APRS Weather Stations? To : David Smith From : Barry Martin Date : Tue May 19 2020 11:10:00 Hi Dave! BM> Your But Firsts seem to be more aggressive in distracting you than mine! DS> Yep especially lately I seem to get so easlily distracted. DS> Working at home right now with all this COVID-19 stuff going on DS> and its taking all I can do to stay focused on actual work! :) That's nothing! You should see how easily distracted us retired folks can be!! BM> My writing got ruined from high-speed note-taking in college; in BM> hindsight Gregg Shorthand would have been helpful but I don't know of BM> any tract in the sciences where shorthand is an option. That seems to BM> be an exclusive of the 'secretarial' tract. DS> Not that my handwriting was ever any good, but it was at least DS> legible back when I was in school. I wish we would have had DS> laptops and stuff back then it sure would have made things Hmmm: extension cords to trip over, whirring of cooling fans, bopping of the person sitting in front of you against the neck of your CRT..... DS> easier! I tried to use one of those micr-casette recorders to DS> record notes but then when I tried to sit down in my dorm and DS> listen to them I would always seem to fall asleep! Fortunately, i DS> managed to make it through college "Thanky Lawdy"! :) I vaguely recall a few people in class taping the lectures -- no, they used cassettes, maybe micro-cassettes, not reel-to-reel!! They either tried to sit in the front row or two in front of the podium or under a speaker in the ceiling. BM> Actually "Intro to Home Ec" BM> would be good for college students: how to sew a button, how to clean BM> the dorm room and do laundry (why is everything pink?!).... DS> Don't get me started on Home Ec! I didn't care much for high DS> school, and don't remember much of anything I learned there, but DS> two of the few things I do remember and still use today; DS> Aggriculture/Shop and the week that all the guys had to take Home DS> Ec! They don't even teach these classes in a lot of schools now. DS> Its such a shame because these are critical life skills that DS> everyone needs to learn to be prepared for when they grow up and DS> leave home! Yes. I don't know if my parents did it on purpose or just evolved but I knew how to clean (well, that one more was what would be termed 'chore'), simple cooking -- that one evolved from my Mother would go skiing and so us men (Dad and I) made something to eat. I could do simple sewing: sew a button back on, patch a rip, etc. BM> Most do. Check www.lirc.org -- scroll down for the link to the BM> database ("Supported Remote Controls" header). BM> I used a receiver from a Hauppauge tuner -- can't find the specific BM> right now but is one of the two or three commonly used IR detectors in BM> a pretty plastic cover and connecting cable. The problem I had was the BM> extraction/build/whatever didn't automatically create several files so BM> while I had the first step of detection and decoding and the last step BM> of doing something with it Step 2 of linking the two was missing. (I BM> used to watch SouthPark and the episode about "Phase 1 - make BM> underpants, Phase 3 - Profit! -- What's 'Phase 2?" 'We dunno'" comes to BM> mind!) BM> BM> BTW, it appears connecting the IR detector to an RPi 3 and to an RPi4 BM> are different. The GPIO pins are the same, maybe the firmware changed?? BM> I can give links if you want them. BM> BM> ...Your comment I just need to find a good IR receiver to work with BM> MagiQuest wand and the RPi', I'm going to say probably not too much of BM> a problem; maybe check out this 1 minute video BM> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZec247UpLM -- I didn't view but the BM> text onthe page indicates it is working with an Arduino. DS> Hey thats a good video! I looked at a few videos and websites a DS> while back but nothing with such a good "hands on" demonstration. DS> Definately gonna save this one! While I think of it "be careful" with LIRC and the Raspberry 4 or maybe Buster and so all the Raspberry Pi's. (My current project sort of requires the RPi4 so "don't care" about 3, 2, etc.) Anyway, appears something is broken between LIRC and Buster: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=269703 https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=235256 "Oddly" on my Pi LIRC, or what I think is LIRC, works once I get into MythTV: the remote functions work. Getting there is the problem: trying to push a button on the remote at Desktop to load MythFrontEnd isn't working. A test to simply write to a file (echo txt > test.txt) also didn't work but then I'm not sure I was doing it right. Have a question in to the Forum that has been helping. DS> My son was commenting on Magiquest last night. He really loved DS> it! I'd sure like to try to get a little "Mini-Adventure" set up DS> at home for him! :) Good! I'll admit not be being into gaming other than Solitaire and lately Mahjongg but if everyone was the same we'd be borrrrring!! As for setting up the mini-adventure, go for it!! At least we might be able to figure out the infrared part! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Bad Gift Ideas: "Learn To Cook Before You Kill Us All!" Cookbook --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .