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Weather => Weather Hardware/Measurement => Topic started by: dfw_pilot on April 05, 2017, 03:48:36 AM
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Anyone have any good ideas on how to get a good lightning detection system that works with macOS? It seems like, once again, without an aging Windows system with serial ports and PCI slots, us Jony Ive folks are out of luck.
Does anyone run a LDS here? If so, what?
I'd love this Boltek system (http://www.boltek.com/product/ld350-lightning-detector/) and run it like this guy does (http://tiggrweather.net/wxstormstation5.php).
If anyone has any thoughts, I'm all ears. Thanks,
dfw
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I am also interested in this. Here are a couple of very short WeatherCat forum threads on the topic:
http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=1316.msg10909#msg10909
http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=768.0;nowap
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Dear DFW, Blick, and WeatherCat fans of getting a real "charge" out of the weather! . . .
Anyone have any good ideas on how to get a good lightning detection system that works with macOS?
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I'd love this Boltek system (http://www.boltek.com/product/ld350-lightning-detector/)
According to the Boltek website, their software works with all versions of Windows. That being the case, there is a good chance is it coded simply and conservatively. Windows software like that should be a good candidate to run on your Mac with Crossover (https://www.codeweavers.com/):
https://www.codeweavers.com/ (https://www.codeweavers.com/)
You can try Crossover for free and you can download the software that runs on Boltek systems also for free. You'll have the same problem I did connecting the USB device to Crossover, but there are instructions on how share a Mac USB port with the Windows program on the CodeWeaver's web site.
It is certainly worth a shot!
Cheers, Edouard
P.S. I wrote a review of Crossover that you'll find here:
http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=2100.msg19345#msg19345 (http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=2100.msg19345#msg19345)