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Local Forecast / Re: the Real WeatherSTAR 4000 Lives again.
« on: May 08, 2020, 06:31:47 PM »
Heres what it looked like when that QLCS moved through awhile back:
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Local Forecast / Re: the Real WeatherSTAR 4000 Lives again.
« on: May 08, 2020, 06:28:30 PM »
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.
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.
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Local Forecast / Re: Classic LF Questions
« on: May 08, 2020, 07:37:41 AM »
I guess this is where the generational divide is going to start showing its prevalence.
To me, 2010 is NOT even close to being "classic" Classic to me is from the birth up until around 2005 or so.
Some newer generations could argue classic is anything from the 2013 rebrand and before. Then what happens with another rebrand? hmm...
But, I have been a TWC watcher since the early days, as I am almost as old as TWC is. So I look at it from a completely different perspective. But, for me, anything past 2005, its all a blur as I grew out of it for awhile. So I tend to stick to TWC as it was in my childhood. Thats where the generational divide shows up.
To me, 2010 is NOT even close to being "classic" Classic to me is from the birth up until around 2005 or so.
Some newer generations could argue classic is anything from the 2013 rebrand and before. Then what happens with another rebrand? hmm...
But, I have been a TWC watcher since the early days, as I am almost as old as TWC is. So I look at it from a completely different perspective. But, for me, anything past 2005, its all a blur as I grew out of it for awhile. So I tend to stick to TWC as it was in my childhood. Thats where the generational divide shows up.
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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.
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Local Forecast / Re: Weather Star 4000 Hardware
« on: April 17, 2020, 01:16:22 PM »
Oh, you mean like what I did? :-)
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