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WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
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#122I run one of these on my desk 24x7 with a raspberry pi and a 3D printed monitor that simulates a CRT. I tried with a real CRT TV but the frequency and having it at the side of my main monitor started to make me sick. https://imgur.com/a/wD2EINO https://github.com/vbguyny/ws4kp
I love the contrast between using a book to raise your main screen... and having a whole computer dedicated to showing weather 24/7!
Re: WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
#123Not knowing what WeatherStar 4000+ was, I was expecting "Weather Channel Simulator" to use AI to generate live video of a weather reporter describing the weather. Can't be too far off.
Yeah! There's nothing quite like watching fake people on fake weather broadcasts presenting weather just for me. One day we'll wonder why we ever used humans for anything.
Re: WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
#124I run one of these on my desk 24x7 with a raspberry pi and a 3D printed monitor that simulates a CRT. I tried with a real CRT TV but the frequency and having it at the side of my main monitor started to make me sick. https://imgur.com/a/wD2EINO https://github.com/vbguyny/ws4kp
I love the contrast between using a book to raise your main screen... and having a whole computer dedicated to showing weather 24/7!
You missed the irony of the monitor sitting on a NUC that is probably 1000x more powerful than the Pi running the weather lol.
Re: WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
#125I listen to a lot of Pat Metheny Group, which my wife refers to as "Weather Channel Music". I used to argue that Pat was waaay better than the stuff on the Weather Channel, until one day we had it on in a hotel room and "Last Train Home" came on, and I had to shut the heck up.
"Last Train Home" was also used as outro music for the anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, S3, Stardust Crusaders.
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#126If you're interested in this, someone on YouTube got a WeatherStar 4000 (device that sat at cable headends and generated the local weather report graphics) and wrote all new firmware to make 90's style weather reports on the real hardware. This was necessary because the original firmware was downloaded over satellite so it's now lost. It looks basically identical to the real Weather Channel from the 90s, except it do…
Interesting project thanks for sharing.
I've casually tried to track down a voice in weather from that time with no luck, but this project scratches the itch somewhat. When I was younger (late 90s-early 00's) I spent a fair amount of my summers fishing with my father and brother on Lake Ontario. We would occasionally turn on the radio and catch a weather report from the coast guard/noaa. There was something about that then out-dated computer generated voice delivering the weather succinctly and to the point.
It was actually a project I used to evaluate coding done by an LLM. It was mediocre and took way too many iterations. But I now have a keyboard shortcut that will fetch KML/XML from noaa, parse out my important details, and read it back to me. The voice isn't quite right. But the morning I spent working on that was a good distraction at the time.
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#127It will only be the true 90s Weather Channel when I hear some Rippingtons playing in the background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndaMC-Ug4Jg
If you like the music more than the data, search YouTube for "weather channel vaporwave". I find it relaxing
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#128This sounds interesting but here's what I experience: I put London and pressed continue - nothing happened. I gave the location permission and pressed continue - nothing happened again. Console printed these logs: Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'relativeLocation') at ws.min.js?_=5.21.3:1:133923 at ws.min.js?_=5.21.3:1:89730
Someone posted the international version elsewhere in this page.
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#129This is incredible, thanks for sharing!
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're right, of course. I guess I just put a lot of weight on the charm of keeping old things running, and think there's value to the public in allowing free use of music, particularly for non-commercial/educational purposes.
Not sure if you are aware but the weather Channel sold music CDs I have one.
Many for sale here: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Weather+Channel+Music+C...