PlotMorph package updates & Weather stations

> I’ve just uploaded a new version of PlotMorph (MCHttpRepository
>     location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/PlotMorph'
>     user: ''
>     password: ‘’) or
> http://www.squeaksource.com/PlotMorph/PlotMorph-tpr.39.mcz
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> This adds a new subclass, TimeDataPlotMorph, which uses Morphic stepping to
> have the too-old data (as determined by the plotDuration ivar) removed and
> the plot bounds updated. This has made nice scrolling plots of my weather
> station data. It certainly isn’t polished, let alone finished, so feel free
> to improve it.
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> There’s also a new release of ‘Weather station for Squeak’ (MCHttpRepository
>     location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/WeatherStation'
>     user: ''
>     password: ‘’) or
> http://www.squeaksource.com/WeatherStation/WeatherStation-tpr.7.mcz
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> Generally the MQTT & weather station code is running extremely reliably;
> it’s running live in my development image as I add new stuff l(ike the
> BarometerMorph that is the result of a lot of donated time by Bob Arning). I
> haven’t had to change or restart the mqtt client in four or five weeks.
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> The BarometerMorph and its sort-of abstract parent RotaryDialMorph should
> someday be good enough to move to the main Morph category and provide nice
> roundy-roundy data displaying for all, for things like pressure, humidity,
> temperature, speed, rpms, time, sound levels, voltage and what have you.
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> A rotary indicator is a quite ‘interesting’ project that deserve more
> attention in my opinion. There are so many possible options for the
> displaying, the look of the dial(s), the indicator ‘needle’ and so on. I’d
> say you could make a pretty good thesis project out of simply characterising
> them, let alone implementing a good scheme for parameterising them for code.
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> tim
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> tim Rowledge; [hidden email]; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
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>> On 13-04-2017, at 2:59 AM, H. Hirzel <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> Thank you for the interesting report, Tim.
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>> Could you please add a nice screen shot as Tobias recently has
>> increased the size limit for attachments?
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>A screen shot here, or on the squeaksource swiki page? I can’t see any way to add an image to those tinyswikis at the moment but it would be a nice thing to find out.
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>The air pressure plot and New!Shiny!Barometer!! (Thanks for the help Bob)
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>Humidity -
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>The yellow line is for our guestroom, which always seems the coolest room in the house. Notice how the humidity plummets when we turn on the dehumidifier and how after a couple of hours that also works its way to the other sensor traces at the other end of the house (my office, currently)
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>I’ll be working on nice dials for the humidity and temp soon since they ought to be fairly simple.
>At some point I need to do something about keeping the data more properly than simply a huge and growing OrderedCollection. I do have a simplistic JSon exporter/importer for it but a proper DB like Magma would be more appropriate.
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>tim

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> On 13-04-2017, at 2:59 AM, H. Hirzel <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Thank you for the interesting report, Tim.
>
> Could you please add a nice screen shot as Tobias recently has
> increased the size limit for attachments?
>
>
> A screen shot here, or on the squeaksource swiki page? I can’t see any way
> to add an image to those tinyswikis at the moment but it would be a nice
> thing to find out.
>
> The air pressure plot and New!Shiny!Barometer!! (Thanks for the help Bob)
> Humidity -
> The yellow line is for our guestroom, which always seems the coolest room in
> the house. Notice how the humidity plummets when we turn on the dehumidifier
> and how after a couple of hours that also works its way to the other sensor
> traces at the other end of the house (my office, currently)
>
> I’ll be working on nice dials for the humidity and temp soon since they
> ought to be fairly simple.
> At some point I need to do something about keeping the data more properly
> than simply a huge and growing OrderedCollection. I do have a simplistic
> JSon exporter/importer for it but a proper DB like Magma would be more
> appropriate.
>
> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; [hidden email]; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Performance is easier to add than clarity.
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