And some more that work with Puppy.....
From the link from labbe5 that Mike gave above, I've downloaded the 'deb2appimage' app. I'm going to give this a try; I would love to see if I could turn my BitMeterOS (bandwidth meter) .deb packages into AppImages. It's summat fairly simple to start with, and it's summat that I
know (from long experience) just 'works'.
Watch this space....
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Now, then; another weather AppImage has turned up. Unlike
Temps,
Nimbus-Weather is 64-bit only.....but it provides far more detailed info (including hourly, daily, and weekly forecasts). Powered by
DarkSky, the accuracy of the info is astonishing.
I've made this one up into .pet and SFS packages; located in /opt, and started from an icon in the notification area (or 'systray', for those of you used to Windoze terminology).
And the app itself looks like this:-
Colour themes can be changed, and a few bits'n'bobs related to the DarkSky API, and.....that's about it for the settings. But the data itself can be manipulated
in every conceivable way possible from within the app itself, all controlled via DarkSky's API.....and the weather graphics are
animated. (Whoo-hoo...!
)
Packages can be found here:-
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
...both .pet, and SFS. This is currently working well in Xenialpup64 7.5; I shall be trying it out in Tahr64 6.0.5 later today.
Enjoy.
(Edit:- Nope, that's a no-go in Tahr64. It wants newer versions of libnss3.so and libnssutil3.so. I tried sym-linking the newer versions from my Chrome package (courtesy of battleshooter), and also tried substituting with the versions from Xenial64. In both cases, it resulted in the following:-
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root# /mnt/sda1/Weather/nimbus-weather64
desktop-file-install is missing. Skipping /tmp/.mount_nimbustyg24u/AppRun.
[25788:0813/193625.222872:FATAL:nss_util.cc(160)] nss_error=-5925, os_error=0
Aborted
(*shrug*)
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For those of you that are radio buffs (and I'm talking 'proper' radio here, not pre-streamed internet radio), I've found a couple of AppImages that both appear to deal with either DAB radio or manually-tuned, PLL (phase-locked-loop). They both work fine; they fire up, and everything appears to be functional (as far as it goes), but, of course, they need a 'tuner'.
Smokey01 was talking in the Newsletter a couple of months back about being able to watch digital TV through VLC in Fatdog64. He mentioned a particular type of USB 'tuner stick', complete with miniature aerial and remote control. Amazon & eBay both appear to be inundated with these devices, most of which hail from China (where else?!), and all appear to be around the GBP £10 mark.
I think I'm going to invest in one of these; it won't break the bank, and it will allow me to try these AppImages out, since the sticks also allow access to DAB, FM, AM, etc., in addition to the TV tuner stuff. I shall report back with my findings.
So.....stay 'tuned'..! (*sorry; couldn't resist that...
)
Mike.
