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Local Forecast / the Real WeatherSTAR 4000 Lives again.
« on: May 02, 2020, 07:51:55 PM »
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.
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.