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2015-12-16 Thread Gary
Hi guys. Haven't done much in a while but I need your genius advice now. This quadriplegic is controlling my heating, airconditioning and living room with a foxpro database. I send messages via com port to an old (obsolete but still working) stargate system to run my x10 light and fan switches. I

Re: [OT] Apology

2015-12-16 Thread Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox)
FWIW, I thought it was a reasonable question... On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > Dear Vixens and Reynards: > > I apologise for the kerfuffle caused by me asking for useful > alternatives to the terms "master" and "slave". It was a sincere request,

RE: Weather history

2015-12-16 Thread Dennis Schuette
Yes, that does have the data I'm looking for, but it appears to be a manual download. I want to be able to automate data downloads for multiple locations for specific periods, such as yesterday, between date ranges, etc. It could be ftp'd, emailed data, screen scrape, etc. Using VFP's trove

Re: Weather history

2015-12-16 Thread Ted Roche
It's hard to provide any helpful resources when it's unclear what you are looking for. NWS does provide a lot of programmable APIs you can use. You might also want to look at wunderground,com. While it's primarily a web site for hobbyist weather station operators to network, it does include some

Re: Weather history

2015-12-16 Thread Alan Bourke
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, at 03:31 PM, Dennis Schuette wrote: > Yes, that does have the data I'm looking for, but it appears to be a > manual download. I want to be able to automate data downloads for > multiple locations for specific periods, such as yesterday, between date > ranges, etc. It

Re: Weather history

2015-12-16 Thread Stephen Russell
> From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of > Dennis Schuette > Sent: 16 December 2015 09:22 > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > Subject: Weather history > > I would like to store daily weather statistics for several rural locations > across the continental United States. Is

Weather history

2015-12-16 Thread Dennis Schuette
I would like to store daily weather statistics for several rural locations across the continental United States. Is there a public database somewhere that I can use to extract data and store in a VFP table? Thanks. Dennis Schuette --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---

RE: Weather history

2015-12-16 Thread Paul Newton
I googled "US weather database" and many promising results came up including http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Schuette Sent: 16 December 2015 09:22 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Weather history