README
1Fine Offset Wireless Weather Station Reader.
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3(C) 2010 Ane-J�rgen Auberg
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5Software is not released through any official channels, and
6thereby do not expect support from the vendor on this product.
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8This software is in no way affiliated or related to
9Fine Offset Electronics Co.,LTD. (http://www.foshk.com)
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11Product USB vendor details Vendor 1941, ID 8021
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13The application is written with inspiration from the following projects:
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15 1) WeatherStation.py - The pywws poject. http://pywws.googlecode.com
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17 2) usbsnoop2libusb.pl - The usbsnoop log file.
18 The latest version of the script should be in http://iki.fi/lindi/usb/usbsnoop2libusb.pl
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20 3) wwsr.c - Wireless Weather Station Reader
21 Michael Pendec (michael.pendec@gmail.com)
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24Copyright (C) 2010 Arne-J�rgen Auberg (arne.jorgen.auberg@gmail.com)
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26 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
27 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
28 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
29 (at your option) any later version.
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31 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
32 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
33 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
34 GNU General Public License for more details.
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36 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
37 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
38 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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40Dependencies:
41 libusb (http://libusb.sf.net)
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43Brief introduction to functionality.
44 - The application is called through a script called by cron.
45 - All other parameters are shown when running the application
46 either with the -h option, or without any arguments.
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48Current status:
49 - Reads all weather station data, not all data is decoded or used.
50 - Caching of previously read weather station values.
51 - No writing of data, this must be performed using
52 the EasyWeather application or the console display.
53 - Tested on OpenWrt, an embedded Linux distro
54 - Device gets claimed by the kernel usbhid driver, try running
55 this program as root if you have problems to give it
56 permissions to detach the attached drivers on startup.
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58TODO:
59 - More log formats
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