LCD Weather Software

[akweb]

Does anyone have any interest in a program that receives live weather data and displays it on an LCD?

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[mpeters123]

I would be veryinterested in this software. I have a weather station console at home plugged in to my PC.

 

[akweb]

This software only works initially with parallel port based HD44780 displays, and just scrolls the conditions. So far, has been tested with 16x2 display.

 

[mpeters123]

Can you give me any details? I would be interested in updates.

 

[akweb]

Basically it's going to be a program that is compatible only with parallel-based character LCDs. While it's designed for 16x2 sized displays it should work with about any size, although the text consists of only two lines. It can be minimized to your tray and runs in the background. It grabs realtime weather data and displays it on the LCD.

 

[mpeters123]

Sounds cool but where is it coming from? How can I check for updates.

 

[akweb]

It's still in Beta stage, but I'll be posting a location soon.

 

[mpeters123]

I just got a CFA-631 so I have a little display. Let us know.

 

[akweb]

Not sure, but I don't think that display is parallel interface is it?

 

[akweb]

LCDWeather 1.0 Beta

For all you weather/parallel LCD enthusiasts, here's a link to a program that will display live weather data on your LCD:

http://www.akwebservices.com/lcdweather.htm

Enjoy! Comments/suggestions welcome!

-AK

 

[akweb]

Third party weather software

If people are interested, I could write an app that would retrieve weather information into a file which can then be read into most LCD software that can read in text files, etc (LCD Smartie can).

It's basically a separate app that runs in the tray and constantly updates a text file with current weather data, etc.

If anyone is interested, let me know.

-AK

 

[akweb]

Weather display on CFA-631

I'm working on a new weather program that will display data on a CFA-631. It might also work with the other 63x displays, I just don't have any here to test with. If anyone is interested in this, let me know.

Thanks,

-AK

 

[akweb]

There's a new version of LCD Weather available which will now support almost all of the 63x displays (631, 632, 633, 634). Also a version is available for 634 users exclusively.

http://www.akwebservices.com/lcdweather


Enjoy!

-akweb

 

[dsieb]

nice work akweb!

 

[akweb]

Thanks! Just trying to provide useful programs for various displays. Will be having some updates to some of the weather programs soon.

 

[dhallag]

you can also use jalcds

 

[flip360shep]

It doesn't work for me. I installed the one specifically for the 634, and I installed the drivers that came with it. I clicked on the application and it won't start up. It says that "Current MSINET.OCX or one of it's dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid"

???? Can someone help me out here?

 

[dhallag]

try the jalcd forum - I remember having that problem as well but don't remember how to fix

 

[akweb]

Thanks for mentioning that. I actually forgot to package MSINET.OCX with the installation. There's a new 'fixed' download available at:

http://www.akwebservices.com/lcdweather/cfa634.htm

Thanks!

-AK

 

[dhallag]

Glad you figured it out - how do you like using jalcdc?