Classics - The Weather Channel from 1982-1999 > Local Forecast
the Real WeatherSTAR 4000 Lives again.
techknight:
Some of you may have been following this project of mine, but some of you may not have.
Through some crazy reverse engineering efforts, and then software development right behind that, I managed to get the STAR 4000 hardware running again since its demise in 2014.
I present to you, the first graphical Local Forecast since that fateful day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCcgaJrjaYs
I have a raspberry pi as the video source into the unit, and the graphics card has a hard time with the signal coming out of the Pi. its kinda noisy, but, the 4000 was originally designed and tuned to the composite output from a VideoCipher module which is slightly different than a non-encoded NTSC signal as VC generated the horizontal front/back porch and sync pulses internally during descrambling.
twcclassics:
Is that how the real 4000's radar looked towards the end? I've never seen that before.
techknight:
Thats my own personal touch. I thought adding a regional radar would ad my own little spin on it.
Same basemap ratio so when I switch over to local radar, it'll look right. Keeps the math simple, and keeps the memory usage low as its very limited. I only have 2MB to work with for assets.
Also, this is an enhanced radar so it shows the snow and mix precip types as well. The radar the 4000 never had, and should have. :-)
But the unprojected basemap works with the NWS CONUS as well. so I have options, and can go either way.
techknight:
Heres what it looked like when that QLCS moved through awhile back:
techknight:
and I cant forget this tidbit:
Captured during the 3 supercells that trained in south carolina a couple weeks ago.
Note: the video source I am using is a Pi, and it distorts the framebuffer a bit which I need to fix. I have to retune the graphics card to match that of the Pi's composite signal since the card was originally designed to lock onto a VC descrambled signal.
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