Topic: Any wx software run as a Windows XP service?

[John Canfield]

Need some help if you please...

Is anybody aware of any weather software (for my Vantage Pro2) that will run as a service under Windows XP?  I'm thinking about putting together a very minimal machine to upload to Weather Underground and want to make it completely unattended and bootable right into the weather application.

Maybe there is another way to do this other than having a service starting automatically on machine boot?

I am trying to get wview running on my Nslu2 (well, it's running but not talking to my console), so I'm looking at other options.

Thanks,

John

[wuhu_software]

Need some help if you please...

Is anybody aware of any weather software (for my Vantage Pro2) that will run as a service under Windows XP?  I'm thinking about putting together a very minimal machine to upload to Weather Underground and want to make it completely unattended and bootable right into the weather application.

Maybe there is another way to do this other than having a service starting automatically on machine boot?

I am trying to get wview running on my Nslu2 (well, it's running but not talking to my console), so I'm looking at other options.

Thanks,

John

You could just have XP do an auto-admin logon then launch the weather app in the startup folder.

There is a way to turn regular apps in to a service. If you need more info, let me know.

[John Canfield]

Thanks for the reply!

I just did a google and saw there are commercial software vendors selling application to service utility programs - never dawned on me there was such a thing 

That's a good idea about the auto admin login and start folder.  Now I need to take the path of the least pain - spend many more hours fighting with my Slug trying to get the USB port talking to the Vantage console, or cobble together a minimal XP box.

Cheers,

John

[wuhu_software]

Thanks for the reply!

I just did a google and saw there are commercial software vendors selling application to service utility programs - never dawned on me there was such a thing 

That's a good idea about the auto admin login and start folder.  Now I need to take the path of the least pain - spend many more hours fighting with my Slug trying to get the USB port talking to the Vantage console, or cobble together a minimal XP box.

Cheers,

John

Was it easy to setup the development environment for the Nslu2?

I was thinking about making an open-source weather station based using the Nslu2 or perhaps a different wifi open source router. I was thinking a generic USB DAQ device like a Labjack would be a good place to start.

Thanks.

[John Canfield]

The Nslu2 is a very popular hacked box and has quite a following. (http://www.nslu2-linux.org/

Wview ( http://www.wviewweather.com/) runs well on the Slug (so others report) once you get the right packages installed and tweaked.  This is literally an hours-long process and at least some familiarity with Unix/Linux/*nix is required.

John

[wuhu_software]

The Nslu2 is a very popular hacked box and has quite a following. (http://www.nslu2-linux.org/

Wview ( http://www.wviewweather.com/) runs well on the Slug (so others report) once you get the right packages installed and tweaked.  This is literally an hours-long process and at least some familiarity with Unix/Linux/*nix is required.

John

Are you using a USB to serial adapter?

I suppose you need a custom driver in that case?

Thanks.

[tinplate]

I just did a google and saw there are commercial software vendors selling application to service utility programs - never dawned on me there was such a thing 

There is freeware software out there that does the same thing.

[kanewolf]

The Nslu2 is a very popular hacked box and has quite a following. (http://www.nslu2-linux.org/

Wview ( http://www.wviewweather.com/) runs well on the Slug (so others report) once you get the right packages installed and tweaked.  This is literally an hours-long process and at least some familiarity with Unix/Linux/*nix is required.

John

Are you using a USB to serial adapter?

I suppose you need a custom driver in that case?

Thanks.

I have been using the serial version since the first of the year on an NSLU2 (USB to serial converter required).  Choose your USB to serial with a supported chipset and it is easy.

wview is available as pre-compiled packages for some flavors of O/S on NSLU2.  I didn't choose one of those so I had to compile.  Not difficult.  Everything runs on a 2 GB flash drive
and only takes about 700MB (O/S, compile environment, SSH, NTP, .....)

[John Canfield]

I bought the Davis USB data logger (comes with Weatherlink software which I never use.)  Davis uses a Silicon Labs CP2101 USB to UART chip according to the wview install instructions.  You either have to install the cp2101 kernel module *or* it is built in to the Debian distro kernel which I'm trying to install as I type this.

The Nslu2 is a very popular hacked box and has quite a following. (http://www.nslu2-linux.org/

Wview ( http://www.wviewweather.com/) runs well on the Slug (so others report) once you get the right packages installed and tweaked.  This is literally an hours-long process and at least some familiarity with Unix/Linux/*nix is required.

John

Are you using a USB to serial adapter?

I suppose you need a custom driver in that case?

Thanks.