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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/10/2014 07:56, Paul Harwood
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Hi both,
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<div>I use tinydns <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=sjtIVPXLDcSq8wedyoLoDw&gws_rd=ssl#q=tinydns">https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=sjtIVPXLDcSq8wedyoLoDw&gws_rd=ssl#q=tinydns</a></div>
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<div>Really flexible, configurable and lightweight.</div>
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<div>On 23 Oct 2014, at 03:34, Jon Gittoes <<a
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<p dir="ltr">Hi Graham,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sounds fairly straight forward.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I suggest dnsmasq, its small, light and will
allow you to put in your own entries for certain servers
ie the Oregon ones.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you need more control over the DNS then
powerdns is a better option as it allows you to plugin
your own custom back ends, but its probably overkill for
your project.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Good luck</p>
<p dir="ltr">Jon<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 23 Oct 2014 02:05, "Graham
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<div dir="auto"><span>Hi guys (gender neutral version)</span>
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<div>I have a query, and hoped one of you could help
me out.</div>
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<div>Short version:</div>
<div>How to install a local DNS server on a raspberry
pi for use at home, dhcp would be nice too but not
essential. How to route a dns enquiry to a local
server.</div>
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<div>Long version:</div>
<div>I bought a weather station (£39 reduced from
£199) made by oregon scientific. Have read the
reviews and it seems to boil down to this: the
hardware is okay, gets the job done etc, but it has
no local output, it ONLY connects to oregon's
servers, then the user can view the data with an
phone app, or online in a webbrowser. The problem,
oregons servers are CRAP, and thats as polite as i
can be about them. They go down for WEEKS at a
time, during which the user cannot obtain any info
from their own weather station, and it is not cached
locally waiting for a connection either the data is
just GONE. There is just no weather during these
outages.</div>
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<div>the plan:</div>
<div>Install raspberry pi with dns server. Point dns
requests for the oregon server back to the pi.
Install a LAMP config on the pi. Use wireshark to
work out whats going back and forward, write a php
script on the pi to grab the data locally, and if i
can be bothered forward it to oregon.</div>
<div>Store the data locally, uploading to my real
online server in 10minute batches, including any
cached data stored while waiting for connectivity. </div>
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<div>Profit.</div>
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<div>Am i going about this all wrong? I have seen
people binning these weather stations because they
are so unreliable at connecting with oregons
servers, but i havnt seen this attempted yet with
it. Plus whats not to like about having a local dns
server that i can reroute.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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<div>G</div>
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Hi,<br>
Im not sure but I remember some posts before about the maplin
weather station and people saying it was a rebranded Watson one.<br>
<br>
while tinkering with my one (on a windows box) I also learnt about
cumulus software<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sandaysoft.com/products/cumulus">http://sandaysoft.com/products/cumulus</a><br>
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which works with the Oregon stuff and<br>
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this piece of wierdness<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.weather-display.com/index.php">http://www.weather-display.com/index.php</a><br>
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both are mentioned in this review of the maplins one by the
frequency cast guys<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/weatherstations.html">http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/weatherstations.html</a><br>
which also supports some oregons<br>
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so carry on with the raspberry pi sketch but these may be useful
too.<br>
oh and if someone actually gets/reads this, can you send a reply has
I havent had one to an email for months so I dont know if my email
still works there.<br>
<br>
k<br>
ciao<br>
Ian<br>
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