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Daylight Saving Time
4 Nov 2007Finally upgraded all my computers and slugs to take into account the Daylight Savings Time switch in November versus October. All my computers and clocks seemed to do it all automagically, but my slug didn’t. Here how I fixed the time on the NSLU2 running SlugOS (formerly OpenSlug). This particular slug runs the weather station [...]
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- Tags: daylight savings time, DST, MDT, MST, nslu2, slug, time switch, timezones, weather station
POCSAG decoding
4 Nov 2007My current project is to get rid of my digital fire pager (and possibly those of other folks on the department who are interested).
I purchased a Realistic PRO-57 scanner, which is easily modified (done) to add a discriminator output using the excellent instructions here. I also purchased a two level data slicer to provide a [...]
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- Tags: data slicer, discriminator, fire pager, nslu2, POCSAG, scanner, serial input, serial port, slug
Linux Slug: VOIP & Weather Station
2 Sep 2007I wanted a silent weather server to run wviewweather on, to go with my new Davis Vantage Pro 2.
In view of the latest problems Vonage has been having (they are involved with litigation with Nortel, Sprint, Verizon and SunRocket), I decided to go somewhat farther afield to seek out an alternate solution.
To serve as both [...]
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- Tags: 7960, asterisk, davis, freeware, linux, nslu2, vantage pro2, vonage, weather, weather station, wviewweather
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David Kabal writes random bits about life, gadgets and computers. David is an engineer living in Boulder, Colorado, up in the mountains, where he's also a firefighter.
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