So comments on the weather station, think it’s based on the Dallas one wire weather station design. Would be nice to know, from the manufacturer who I’ve emailed. If assembled as per instruction way too much cable, going to have to revived an old skill and lace it all properly. Connection and configuration really easy, and even in my cottage with 2ft think walls the time clock signal worked

So off the shelf free software and I ended up with pywws (I really meant off the shelf, no compiling!). A few round the houses and I ended up with livelog.py working, and a connection to Weather Underground -

IOXFORDS47

More later …

1. mount -o remount,rw /
2. mkdir -p /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sda1/spool/cron/crontab
3. ln -s /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sda1/spool /var/spool
4. crond
5. nano /etc/init.d/rcS
6. add ‘ln -s /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sda1/spool /var/spool’
7. add’crond’
8. close and save
9. restart pogoplug

Your Pogoplug now has crond running

jQuery and a number of versions… ? why not sure yet but more on that later.

First looks yeah nice, looks like a lot of work has gone into this, need to find a name to acknowledge for the work I think there. (more later on that).

Like the focus thou

links http://www.netweavercentral.com/index.php/2012/sapui5-sdk-documentation-available-now/

http://dailyjs.com/2012/02/14/jquery-roundup/

n.b. you have to register to get this so not sure on the restrictions if you could use this outside of the SAP environment

Over all these years my love for this language has been strong, what always made me pull my hair out used to be the differences between the browsers. Which basically created the bad reputation of this language.

I find it very strange why people try to put classes into a functional based language, why fight the language and the way it works?

Anyway I digress, my favourite libraries are jQuery and Underscore. To add to these there are a few snippets from myself, and looking at apps/single page web apps undecided between Ember.js and Backbone.js.

Currently to fix the browser issues using Modernizr this is almost like a lot of my snippets to fix problems.

More thoughts…

If we set the httpd to run on port 80 the wonderful features of the PogoPlug go so we must use port 8080 as our web server port. The next is that I want to have access to the files so I can upload them via the my.pogoplug.com interface.

1. So via your my.pogoplug.com interface add a folder on you USB drive wwwroot
2. enter the  wwwroot folder and create two folders cgi-data and www
3. enter the www folder and create a cgi-bin folder

All done with that part painless really and you should put an index.htm page in the www folder so you can see something later!

Next log in via SSH and a enter the following ‘/usr/sbin/httpd -p 8080 -h /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sda1/www ’

So now if you have a fixed IP Address like me just enter it and add :8080 at the end and away you go!

Not got a fixed IP address? right you need to look at your router admin pages to see if it has the ability to run a ‘Dynamic DNS’ service.

Then same thing ‘http://myunique.mydns.com:8080

More later

But! after accidentally typing ‘httpd’ at the command line of my PogoPlug, I found out that BusyBox had a minimum HTTP daemon. Nice with a little more searching I came across ‘Haserl’ which allows you to write CGI scripts using the command shell. Now for me this solves my issues of putting a web server on my PogoPlug and not trashing the facilities of the PogoPlug.

So my additions to the PogoPlug have been the following;

• making mtdblock3 jsff2 formated and mounted as /opt
• installing optware package management tool
• installing ‘Haserl’

By creating a directory on one of the external drives then mapping that as the httpd root directory I can seen the web server via http and also make changes to the files via the PogoPlug web interface.

Fro XML only and no CORS.

$(document).ready(function(){
$.get(‘FT500dataset2.xml’, function(data){
$(data)
.find(‘dataset > dataUnit’)
.each(
function(i){
alert(‘position=’ + i);
}
);
});
});

For JSONP-X

$(document).ready(function(){

var yql = ‘http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=’;
yql += encodeURIComponent(“select * from xml where url=’” + rData + “‘”);
yql += ‘&format=xml&diagnostics=true&callback=?’;

$.getJSON(yql,function(ds){
})

.success( function(data){

alert($(data.query.results));
});
});

For straight JSON

$(document).ready(function(){

var yql = ‘http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=’;
yql += encodeURIComponent(“select * from xml where url=’” + rData + “‘”);
yql += ‘&format=json&diagnostics=true&callback=?’;

$.getJSON(yql,function(ds){
})

.success( function(data){

$(data.query.results.dataset.dataUnit)
.each(
function(i){
alert(‘position=’ + i);
}
);
});
});

// this creates the console object if it’s not present – most useful for IE7,8,9
if (! (“console” in window) || !(“firebug” in console)) {
var names = ["log", "debug", "info", "warn", "error", "assert", "dir", "dirxml", "group" , "groupEnd", "time", "timeEnd", "count", "trace", "profile", "profileEnd"];
window.console = {};
for (var i = 0; i <names.length; ++i) window.console[names[i]] = function() {};
}