Mark Harris
Mark Harris
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RE: Raspberry Pi 4B Won't Connect

That's a great catch. We have been fighting that issue. And your description makes perfect sense. Thank you for documenting this here. - Mark

4 years ago
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RE: Very new to this. Need guidance

I liked your idea so much I purchased a runway light off of Ebay. I sand blasted and painted it. I added an ESP32 micro-controller (not RPi) and wrote...

4 years ago
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RE: New to METAR Maps, considering different building techniques

Ambitious map, but very worthwhile. Adding Alaska and Hawaii is a great idea. You don't see too many maps with these 2 states included. A leather ho...

4 years ago
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RE: Map Output issue

Hmm, looks like you found a bug. I'll have to check this out. In the meantime, open 'config.py' and change line 86 (I believe) to; wind_numorarrow =...

4 years ago
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RE: Feature Request - Smoother High Wind Blink

I like the idea. For now, there won't be any changes. But if version 5 sees the light of day, I'll try to add that feature. I'm keeping a list of such...

4 years ago
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RE: LED placement holder

Perfect. Thank you for that information. - Mark

4 years ago
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RE: LED placement holder

Wow Steve, that's great information. I've never run into those locator strips. That will be very helpful. Are the custom length strings available t...

4 years ago
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RE: WPA-Enterprise configuration

I'm sorry, I wish I could be of help with this. But you have ventured far from my knowledge base. I appreciate you continuing updating your progress h...

4 years ago
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RE: New to METAR Maps, considering different building techniques

Nick, Theoretically you can connect all 500 end for end and assuming you have a power supply capable of providing the needed wattage, all will work. I...

4 years ago
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RE: New to METAR Maps, considering different building techniques

Nick, that's a tough call. The great thing about Marty's approach is it turns out quite clean. However that comes at a price. Using LED strings would ...

4 years ago
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RE: LCD test script - How to stop?

Good deal. Let me know if I can help. Send a few pics when its done. - Mark

4 years ago
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RE: LCD test script - How to stop?

The test script is a loop setup to run through the LED's 10 times (I believe its 10 times). You should be able to just wait and it will finish itself ...

4 years ago
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RE: Very new to this. Need guidance

Shawn, I'm not exactly sure I understand. So let me describe what I think you are trying to do and you clarify as necessary. You want use a grass ru...

4 years ago
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RE: Small airport that doesn't report weather, but as a home base?

Rob, your map turned out great! Post a picture when you get it framed and hung. Thanks - Mark

4 years ago
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RE: RPI 4b wont boot up

That's a great looking map. At this point I would just reconnect the monitor and keyboard and at the cmd line enter; sudo raspi-config Select 'Sy...

4 years ago
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