Category: Linux

Weather uplink

I connected a USB to serial adapter to the NSLU2 and it recognized it right away.
Output from dmesg.
[43129780.760000] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[43129780.940000] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[43129780.960000] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303
[43129780.960000] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[43129780.970000] usb 3-1: Product: USB-Serial Controller
[43129780.980000] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
[43129782.550000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[43129782.560000] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
[43129782.570000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[43129782.580000] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
[43129782.650000] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for pl2303
[43129782.660000] pl2303 3-1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
[43129782.730000] usb 3-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[43129782.730000] usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303
[43129782.740000] pl2303: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver

I then went to the management screen and changed from simulator mode to WS23xx. Everything seemed to work fine and the base even linked to the temperature sensor out in the garage. Its not accurate but it is updating now.
Maybe next weekend I can connect the sensors outside and get things working there.

Weather uplink

I connected a USB to serial adapter to the NSLU2 and it recognized it right away.
Output from dmesg.
[43129780.760000] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[43129780.940000] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[43129780.960000] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303
[43129780.960000] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[43129780.970000] usb 3-1: Product: USB-Serial Controller
[43129780.980000] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
[43129782.550000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[43129782.560000] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
[43129782.570000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[43129782.580000] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
[43129782.650000] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for pl2303
[43129782.660000] pl2303 3-1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
[43129782.730000] usb 3-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[43129782.730000] usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303
[43129782.740000] pl2303: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver

I then went to the management screen and changed from simulator mode to WS23xx. Everything seemed to work fine and the base even linked to the temperature sensor out in the garage. Its not accurate but it is updating now.
Maybe next weekend I can connect the sensors outside and get things working there.

NSLU2 and WView for weather

Yesterday I got Debian running on the NSLU2 it was slow but thats the only drawback so far.
Today I used wget and got a copy of wview to gather the data from my Lacrosse weather station. Its been running the install script for about two hours now, so its also slow to add programs and then run a compile but it is working. I did my test setup on an Ubuntu server at work that I was running some maintenance on and it took a few minutes. I guess a little CPU and some memory do make a big difference.
Three and a half hours to build the simulator. Its done all I need to do now is setup FTP to the public web server and oh yeah, actually find the weather station and hook it up so there is real data. Right now the data doesn’t match my location but some of the graphics do.

The public weather page.
The internal management page.

NSLU2 and WView for weather

Yesterday I got Debian running on the NSLU2 it was slow but thats the only drawback so far.
Today I used wget and got a copy of wview to gather the data from my Lacrosse weather station. Its been running the install script for about two hours now, so its also slow to add programs and then run a compile but it is working. I did my test setup on an Ubuntu server at work that I was running some maintenance on and it took a few minutes. I guess a little CPU and some memory do make a big difference.
Three and a half hours to build the simulator. Its done all I need to do now is setup FTP to the public web server and oh yeah, actually find the weather station and hook it up so there is real data. Right now the data doesn’t match my location but some of the graphics do.

The public weather page.
The internal management page.

NSLU2

I’ve got Debian Lenny installing on the NSLU2 right now with a four Gig USB flash drive.
Hardware specs:
The device has two USB 2.0 ports for connecting hard disks and uses an ARM-compatible Intel XScale IXP420 CPU. In models manufactured prior to around April 2006, Linksys had underclocked the processor to 133 MHz, though a simple hardware modification to remove this restriction is possible. The device includes 32 MB of SDRAM, and 8 MB of Flash memory. It also has a 100 megabit Ethernet network connection. The NSLU2 is fanless, making it completely silent.
This should make a decent low power server for my weather station and cameras. Its been about two hours and two more to go before it completes.
I used this site for the instructions.

NSLU2

I’ve got Debian Lenny installing on the NSLU2 right now with a four Gig USB flash drive.
Hardware specs:
The device has two USB 2.0 ports for connecting hard disks and uses an ARM-compatible Intel XScale IXP420 CPU. In models manufactured prior to around April 2006, Linksys had underclocked the processor to 133 MHz, though a simple hardware modification to remove this restriction is possible. The device includes 32 MB of SDRAM, and 8 MB of Flash memory. It also has a 100 megabit Ethernet network connection. The NSLU2 is fanless, making it completely silent.
This should make a decent low power server for my weather station and cameras. Its been about two hours and two more to go before it completes.
I used this site for the instructions.

December 31, 2013 and this is pretty much out of service. No fault of the NSLU2 but the weather station I was using has pretty much worn out from being outside in the elements for roughly five years.

I am thinking about using this as part of my monitoring system at the cabin. The tough part there seems to be the uplink and doing that cheaply enough over cellular service. I do have 4G available but I’d like to do this at the cheapest possible recurring cost each month.

Mailman on 1and1 webhosting

I’m trying to setup a list serve using mailman with 1and1 everything except the webpages seems to work just fine.
I get this error when I try going to the mailman link.
domain.com/mailman/admin/list.admin
“Bug in Mailman version 2.1.9

We’re sorry, we hit a bug!

Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. “