From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 27 23:17:30 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4103829E for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:17:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from smtpout04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpout04-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 034F28FC19 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:17:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12147 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2012 23:10:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (209.180.213.209) by smtpout04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.196) with ESMTP; 27 Nov 2012 23:10:49 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:10:50 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: just thought of a new gui port! Message-ID: <20121127231050.GA28627@ethic.thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:17:30 -0000 how about a local weather GUI that reports the outdoors highs and lows [temps], and the barometric scale and the forecast? we've got one in a shaded area on our deck that pings an indoors receiver every 10-15 minutes. I can't get too close to the receiver for fear of ramming into the furniture. also, the backlight only lasts a few seconds ... too fast for me to scan everything. 1. is there any transmitter that will reach, say, 25 meters and whose data could be picked up by a card inside my computer? 2. I live so close to the airport weather station that im sure that would tell me tons more stuff that I could pick up outside the house. Iremember seeing the weather bureau for the entire US. pretty sure there are global sites with similar data. feedback? gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.