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General Category => General Computing/Macintosh => Topic started by: jgd on December 16, 2018, 05:04:50 PM
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Hi. I?m a new member wanting to use Weathercat with my Davis weather station. I have the data from the station going to an old Mac mini (so I can leave it on all the time, not use my laptop). The OS on the Mini is too old for Weathercat so i?m thinking I could turn on file sharing on the Mini and access/use the data in Weathercat on my MacBook. Any ideas on how to make this work? Thanks!!
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What MacOS are you running on your Mini? I'm running WeatherCat 3.03 on Yosemite (10.10.5) on an old iMac.
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Dear jgd, Grand, and WeatherCat faithful,
Since this is your first posting, let me welcome you to the WeatherCat forum! (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/welcome_smiley.gif)
Hi. I?m a new member wanting to use Weathercat with my Davis weather station. I have the data from the station going to an old Mac mini (so I can leave it on all the time, not use my laptop). The OS on the Mini is too old for Weathercat so i?m thinking I could turn on file sharing on the Mini and access/use the data in Weathercat on my MacBook. Any ideas on how to make this work? Thanks!!
Unfortunately, WeatherCat expects data to be located in a particular location in your home directory. You could try to trick it using symbolic links, but it is a problematic approach. WeatherCat does have a Mac client that you can run on the MacBook. It is located here:
https://trixology.com/weathercat/ (https://trixology.com/weathercat/)
Scroll to the bottom of the page and download the WeatherCat Miscellaneous Files.
The client doesn't however give you access to a lot of the WeatherCat data. If you can run WeatherCat 3 on your mini and have an iOS device, a better choice would be WeatherCatRCP. It is described on this page:
http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=2751.0 (http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=2751.0)
Alas, it sounds like you won't be able to run WeatherCat 3 on your mini. Is there any other ways you could run WeatherCat?
Cheers, Edouard
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Welcome to the forum jgd.
Let us know how you sort this out.
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Thanks to all for the ideas and information. I?m traveling and will pick this up again in the new year.