Hi Randall, smdcat, and WeatherCat fans,
Sorry Randall if it seemed like I was throwing a curve ball there.
I had two concerns in the back of my head there.
While saving energy is important, there are reasons to run your weather station software 24/7. There is only 1 data upload service that can take historical uploads, so if you want to share your data with science and the public - it is worth thinking about leaving your computer running. Also if you don't run your weather software 24/7 some of my AppleScripts won't work properly.
WC Storm Monitor and
WC ET Reporter need to be running essentially all the time.
All this may or may not be important to smdcat, but it is always prudent to mention such things so people have the whole picture.
My other thought was simply another way to schedule things. I find using iCal to schedule automatic events on my computer a bit inconvenient. An alternative is to use the free utility
CronniX. This too may not appeal to smdcat, but it is always better to have more choices than fewer!
So sorry if that muddies the waters, but
for your information. . . . .
Cheers, Edouard