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I 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 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.
I would have sworn they would replace the music with a guy "reading" the forecast.
I was impressed as soon as it loaded and immediately said, "Yea but what about the music?". Then I noticed the sound toggle button. Absolute perfection!
Anyone see an easy way to add the sound-on setting to the URL options generated by "Copy Permalink"?
Is there anyone who could point me to an easy-ish way to get this running on a PI + Screen? I have a special-needs son who would LOVE to have this running. I'll take any advice! Thank you!
Not 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.
And before they started saying "impactful" nine times a minute.
And before they hired that fuckface Justin Michaels.
Before that 1970s "comedian" bought the channel and fucked it up.
If 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…