What weather program do you use? I run Cumulus MX on Raspbian on my Pi 3B+ and it does a very good job; in my case, I migrated from Windows to Pi for the weather station (and the PVR software - TVHeadend), to reduce the power consumption for applications that had to be run 24/7.
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:03:38 -0700, Mike Easter declaimed the following:
It would help to have the actual package names...
NOOBS Raspbian (Debian Buster):
pi@rpi3bplus-1:~$ sudo apt-cache search cctv youtube-dl - downloader of videos from YouTube and other sites zoneminder - video camera security and surveillance solution zoneminder-doc - video camera security and surveillance solution (documentation) pi@rpi3bplus-1:~$
pi@rpi3bplus-1:~$ sudo apt-cache search weather alfred - Almighty Lightweight Fact Remote Exchange Daemon ansiweather - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols aweather - Advanced Weather Monitoring Program budgie-weathershow-applet - Applet to display the weather and forecast cairo-dock-weather-plug-in - Weather plug-in for Cairo-dock conky-all - highly configurable system monitor (all features enabled) conky-all-dbg - highly configurable system monitor (all features enabled - debug) cylc - Workflow scheduler etw - arcade-style soccer game evolution - groupware suite with mail client and organizer flashbake - automated snapshots with git gir1.2-gweather-3.0 - GObject introspection data for the GWeather library gir1.2-matepanelapplet-4.0 - GObject introspection data for MATE panel gir1.2-ukuipanelapplet-4.0 - GObject introspection data for UKUI panel gkrellkam - GKrellM plugin that displays a periodically updating image gkrellweather - A weather monitor plugin for GKrellM gnome-applets - Various applets for the GNOME panel - binary files gnome-shell-extension-weather - weather extension for GNOME Shell gnome-weather - access current conditions and forecasts golang-github-spf13-jwalterweatherman-dev - Go library for both printing to the terminal and logging to files hamfax - Receive/send radio facsimile transmissions with Soundcard/PTC-II lgeneral - strategy game in the tradition of Panzer General libaec-dev - Development files for the Adaptive Entropy Coding library libaec0 - Adaptive Entropy Coding library libeccodes-dev - GRIB and BUFR decoding/encoding software library (development) libeccodes-doc - GRIB decoding/encoding software (documentation) libeccodes-tools - GRIB decoding/encoding software (utilities) libeccodes0 - GRIB and BUFR enecoding/encoding software library libfap-dev - APRS Parser - Development Files libfap5 - APRS Parser libfap5-dev - APRS Parser - Development Files libfap6 - APRS Parser libfontawesomefx-java - Font Awesome perfectly integrated into JavaFX libgeo-metar-perl - accessing Aviation Weather Information with Perl libghc-lambdabot-reference-plugins-dev - Lambdabot reference plugins libghc-lambdabot-reference-plugins-doc - Lambdabot reference plugins; documentation libghc-lambdabot-reference-plugins-prof - Lambdabot reference plugins; profiling libraries libgrib-api-data - grib_api definition files libgrib-api-dev - GRIB decoding/encoding software library (development) libgrib-api-doc - GRIB decoding/encoding software (documentation) libgrib-api-tools - GRIB decoding/encoding software (utilities) libgrib-api0 - GRIB decoding/encoding software library libgweather-3-15 - GWeather shared library libgweather-3-dev - GWeather development files libgweather-common - GWeather common files libmate-panel-applet-4-1 - library for MATE Panel applets libmate-panel-applet-dev - library for MATE Panel applets (development files) libmate-panel-applet-doc - library for MATE Panel applets (documentation files) libmateweather-common - MateWeather shared library (common files) libmateweather-dev - MateWeather shared library (development files) libmateweather1 - MateWeather shared library libmdsp-dev - METAR Decoder Software Package Library development files libow-3.2-3 - 1-Wire File System full library libow-dev - 1-Wire File System (development files) libow-perl - Dallas 1-wire support: Perl5 bindings libow-php7 - Dallas 1-wire support: PHP5 bindings libow-tcl - Dallas 1-wire support: Tcl bindings libowcapi-3.2-3 - 1-Wire File System C library libownet-3.2-3 - owserver protocol library libownet-dev - owserver protocol library (development files) libownet-perl - Perl module for accessing 1-wire networks libownet-php - Dallas 1-wire support: PHP OWNet library libukui-panel-applet-4-1 - library for UKUI Panel applets libukui-panel-applet-dev - library for UKUI Panel applets (development files) libukui-panel-applet-doc - library for UKUI Panel applets (documentation files) libweather-com-perl - CPAN's Weather::Com module for fetching data from weather.com libweather-google-perl - interface to Google's Weather API libweather-ion7 - Plasma Workspace for KF5 library libwreport-dev - library for working with weather reports libwreport-doc - documentation for libwreport libwreport3 - shared library for working with weather reports mate-applets - Various applets for the MATE panel mate-applets-common - Various applets for the MATE panel (common files) mate-panel - launcher and docking facility for MATE mate-panel-common - launcher and docking facility for MATE (common files) metar - utility to download/decode METAR reports meteo-qt - Application to display weather information meteo-qt-l10n - Application to display weather information (translations) ow-shell - shell utilities to talk to an 1-Wire owserver ow-tools - tools to monitor or inspect a ow-server link owfs - Dallas 1-wire support owfs-common - common files used by any of the OWFS programs owfs-doc - Dallas 1-wire support: Documentation for owfs owfs-fuse - 1-Wire filesystem owftpd - FTP daemon providing access to 1-Wire networks owhttpd - HTTP daemon providing access to 1-Wire networks owserver - Backend server for 1-Wire control php-horde-service-weather - Horde Weather Provider php-horde-timeobjects - Horde timeobjects application php-services-weather - This class acts as an interface to various online weather-services plasma-widget-cwp - Customizable Weather Plasmoid (CWP) plasma-widgets-addons - additional widgets for Plasma 5 python-cylc - Python libraries for cylc workflow scheduler python-grib - Python module for reading and writing GRIB files python-grib-doc - Documentation and examples for Python GRIB python-gribapi - Python module for the ECMWF GRIB API library python-hid - cython interface to hidapi python-mpltoolkits.basemap - matplotlib toolkit to plot on map projections python-mpltoolkits.basemap-data - matplotlib toolkit to plot on map projections (data package) python-mpltoolkits.basemap-dbg - matplotlib toolkit to plot on map projections (debug) python-mpltoolkits.basemap-doc - matplotlib toolkit to plot on map projections (documentation) python-ow - Dallas 1-wire support: Python 2 bindings python-ownet - Python 2 module for accessing 1-wire networks python-pymetar - Python interface to METAR reports python-pywapi - Python wrapper around different weather APIs python-ulmo - Simple & fast Python access to public hydrology & climatology data python-ulmo-doc - Simple & fast Python access to public hydrology & climatology data - docs python-wreport - Python library to work with BUFR and CREX weather bulletins python3-eccodes - Python module for the ECMWF GRIB API library python3-grib - Python 3 module for reading and writing GRIB files python3-gribapi - Python3 module for the ECMWF GRIB API library python3-hid - cython3 interface to hidapi python3-mpltoolkits.basemap - matplotlib toolkit to plot on map projections (Python 3) python3-mpltoolkits.basemap-dbg - matplotlib toolkit to plot on map projections (Python 3 debug) python3-ow - Dallas 1-wire support: Python 3 bindings python3-ownet - Python 3 module for accessing 1-wire networks python3-pyninjotiff - Python library for writing NinJo-compatible TIFF files python3-pywapi - Python wrapper around different weather APIs (Python 3) python3-pywws - software for wireless weather stations python3-trollsched - Scheduling satellite passes in Python python3-ulmo - Simple & fast Python 3 access to public hydrology & climatology data python3-wreport - Python library to work with BUFR and CREX weather bulletins rbot - IRC bot written in Ruby rbot-doc - IRC bot written in Ruby -- API documentation ruby-grib - Ruby interface to the ECMWF GRIB API te923con - reading data from weather stations based on Hideki ones texlive-fonts-extra - TeX Live: Additional fonts trollsched-bin - Scheduling satellite passes in Python - scripts ttb - (Dutch) teletekst browser for the desktop ttf-aenigma - 465 free TrueType fonts by Brian Kent ukui-panel - launcher and docking facility for UKUI ukui-panel-common - launcher and docking facility for UKUI (common files) vdr-plugin-weather - Weather plugin for VDR w1retap - Data logger for 1-Wire weather sensors w1retap-doc - Data logger for 1-Wire weather sensors (docs) w1retap-mongo - Data logger for 1-Wire weather sensors (MongoDB plugin) w1retap-mysql - Data logger for 1-Wire weather sensors (MySQL plugin) w1retap-odbc - Data logger for 1-Wire weather sensors (ODBC plugin) w1retap-pgsql - Data logger for 1-Wire weather sensors (PostgreSQL plugin) w1retap-sqlite - Data logger for 1-Wire weather sensors (SQLite plugin) weather-util - command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts weather-util-data - optional correlation data for weather-util search feature weathermap4rrd - script that generates picture network links utilization weboob - CLI applications to interact with websites wfrog - Web-based customizable weather station software wmforecast - weather dockapp for Window Maker using the Yahoo Weather API wmfrog - dockapp for graphically indicating the weather wmweather - WindowMaker dockapp that shows your current weather wmweather+ - WindowMaker dock app that shows your current weather wreport-common - common data files for libwreport xfce4-goodies - enhancements for the Xfce4 Desktop Environment xfce4-weather-plugin - weather information plugin for the Xfce4 panel xygrib - Weather data visualization, GRIB file viewer xygrib-maps - Maps for XyGrib weather visualization youtube-dl - downloader of videos from YouTube and other sites zygrib - Weather data visualization, GRIB file viewer zygrib-maps - Maps for zyGrib weather visualization picon-domains - Picon (Personal Images) database of Internet domain logos picon-misc - Picon (Personal Images) database of common accounts and misc picon-news - Picon (Personal Images) db of Usenet newsgroups and hierarchies picon-unknown - Picon (Personal Images) database for very high-level domains picon-usenix - Picon (Personal Images) db of Usenix conference attendees picon-users - Picon (Personal Images) database of individual Internet accounts picon-weather - Picon (Personal Images) database for displaying weather forecasts pi@rpi3bplus-1:~$
Interesting -- a full Debian Buster for Intel architecture does NOT list Zoneminder... But it is available for Debian Stretch.
-- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/
I use the same weather program, CumulusMX, and it runs great
That will run on Raspbian (using the Mono package) and doesn't need Ubuntu. However the other package that you use (was it a CCTV package) may need Ubuntu, hence your need to get Ubuntu working on the Pi 4.
I used to use the older version of Cumulus on my Windows PC and it suffered from being able to read the very recent readings from the data-logger on my Davis weather station if Cumulus was stopped and then restarted for some reason (eg power cut). As long as the PC rebooted within the 10-minute window of time between one logged reading and the next, I was fine. If the delay was longer, I'd get some historical readings but often the most recent ones would be missing and I'd have to hand-edit the log file so there weren't gaps.
Cumulus MX on the Pi seems to be virtually bulletproof in this respect - it's very rare to get missing readings. I do occasionally get readings that jump back in time half an hour or so, but that's because the real-time clock in the Pi is a bit hit-and-miss following a reboot, until the clock has had chance to resync with a master time source (NTP) on the web. I've got wise to that: after any power cut, I always check the clock and set it manually with the "date" command if it's wrong, so it's much closer to the correct time until a proper NTP resync can occur. It's only really a problem if the router takes a long time to connect and isn't ready and waiting for when the Pi calls for a time sync.
If you need to port the log files from one computer to another, it's as simple as copying the contents of the ~/CumulusMX/data directory from one computer to another, preferably with Cumulus not running.
The cctv program is xeoma and runs on the pi with raspian-buster. It didn't want to run when I tried Ubuntu server, but have raspian on the card now. That is what I intend to do, just copy the data files over from the ubuntu machine to the pi4, as soon as I am ready to do the swap.
I run 2 monitors on the ubuntu machine, 1 for cumulus and 1 for xeoma, so as the pi4 has 2 hdmi ports, I just need another vga to micro hdmi adaptor now, and I'm good to go as it were.
At least to me it seems the network config is done weirdly in Raspbian.
Define "weirdly".
-- Chris Elvidge, England
dhcpcd + hairy external script(s) counts as weirdly to me. Also, since there was already a bunch of ways to do network config, why add another?
I've been able to dive into Raspbian and fiddle with its configuration using the standard Debian documentation so, if anything has weird network configuration, its more likely to be Ubuntu. Especially as Ubuntu is known to have gone off-piste wrt Debian in other areas.
Disclaimer: my other Linux boxes run Fedora rather than Ubuntu. My sister uses Ubuntu from time to time so I have installed and played with it. I intend to continue using Fedora and Raspbian for all my computing needs.
-- Martin | martin at Gregorie | gregorie dot org
Admittedly on a Pi3+, but I gave up with dhcpcd (hogs resources (sometimes)) and used /etc/network/interfaces + /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf which automatically uses dhclient. Viz:
auto lo
auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.23.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
-- Chris Elvidge, England
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