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StormForce
StormForce is a free open source program written in Python/PyGame which connects to a Boltek LD-250 lightning detector and displays lightning strikes in real-time on your desktop. Developed and tested on Debian Etch (Linux) and FreeBSD.
Please report any bugs using the "issues" section.
Click here to download or click here to view the current issues.
Status: Beta
News
10th May 2008 - Update on upcoming release: v0.5.0
- Managed to fix the locking problems with SQLite by implementing a locking system. This does mean there is a decrease in performance but shouldn't be noticeable during normal plotting (but it is noticeable when using the "circle" feature in demo mode). When this version is released you MUST provide the "-a" option to define the database engine you want to use (as always, check the arguments by passing "-h" to find out what is needed for your setup). For the CSV users, there is now an option to import your CSV data into the SQL database.
- For those of you who don't know what to do with the tarball on the download page, try this by opening up a console: "bzip2 -d stormforce-X.X.X.tar.bz2 && tar xf stormforce-X.X.X.tar" (change the X's with the version you downloaded) or if you're in KDE, Gnome, etc just try opening the file and extracting the "stormforce" folder to somewhere useful using the default extracter (usually Ark in KDE).
4th May 2008 - Upcoming release: v0.5.0
- v0.5.0 will be released soon with improved TRAC (~250% faster) and MySQL/SQLite database support. Please note that CSV support has been dropped. I recommend to use MySQL v5.X since SQL views are needed and offers multiple database engines. I'm currently having a few locking problems with SQLite which I hope to get fixed soon. Watch this space!
19th April 2008 - StormForce v0.4.4 released!
- v0.4.4 has improved TRAC and debugging. Check the README for more information.
14th April 2008 - StormForce v0.4.3 released!
- v0.4.3 is my first release of StormForce onto the internet.