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Topic: Weather
13 Aug 2000

I finally added the current temperature to the pondcam. It is all done in a very murky way and is not as general purpose as I would like. The trouble is that anything that happens on a per-frame basis had better be cheap (under 0.1 second of CPU) otherwise it starts to saturate the system.

The final approach is that the data collector writes out a file containing the current temperature every 3 seconds, and then it is read in by the camserv code (the current time is substituted) and then added to the image (now uses imlib2).


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Rolodex

ffmpeg
Open source audio/video streaming software -- this drives my pondcam

jreceiver
Open source server for the Rio Receiver -- this is what I use.

gunnera
Neat description of the Gunnera Manicata -- a truly monstrous plant!

spf-pobox
Information about SPF (Sender Permitted From)

docsearls
The Doc Searls weblog -- he seems clueful and I read him.

cwop
The Citizen Weather Observer Program is a loose collection of amateur weather station operators.


Philip Gladstone