[Xastir] Weather Station

[Dale Seaburg]

Speaking of peet bros 2100, I have a model 2000.  I've had it since  
at least 1999, and I think before that.  I had an i-Opener that I had  
loaded linux (2.2.16) on about then.  It had a 6gb drive.  I have  
weather data back to 1999.  I was loading it into a postgresql  
database.  I had written a C program to read the data, format it and  
append to a csv file for each day (year + julian day).  I then  
presented it in simple tabluar format on the screen showing the  
current day's temp, wind speed, humidity etc along with the high and  
low for the day.

I now have retired the i-Opener, replacing it with a TC1100 I got off  
ebay last year.  It has been upgraded to a 100gb drive and 1.5gb of  
RAM and is doing a nice job of Xubuntu 8.10 and xastir 1.9.5.  It  
will become my new home station dedicated to xastir and weather  
station.  My current xastir  (dual-boot) PC did not have any weather  
data on it.

Now, for some help.  I want to be able to connect the weather data to  
APRS via xastir *and* be able to do as I have in the past - log to  
postgresql and be able to not just have a tty-style display of  
weather data, but a gui with graphing capability of user-selected  
weather data elements and date ranges.  That is my goal.

1.  Is there anything available today to do close to what I want and  
open-source?

2.  If not, what would the guru's suggest as a good gui tool set to  
use?  I don't need to be cross-platform, but I suppose it probably  
ought to be a consideration, if others would like to use it.

A little background about myself:

My last major project was written in C# using Visual Studio 8, so I'm  
spoiled by an very good IDE that hides the implementation details  
from you as you develop the windows, but they're still there if you  
want to do specialize stuff.  I also used postgresql as my dbms of  
choice.  I did a lot of custom C# coding behind the windows and  
controls.  C# was my real intro to OO coding.  In the past, OO has  
always seemed to be a mystery to me.  Prior experience was with  
Access, VB (and FORTRAN waaay before that).  ;-)  Oh yeah, and a bit  
of Java (UGH!)  And, before I forget, some C coding for the HamHUD.  
That gives you a feel for where I've been.  My Linux coding has been  
at the playground level.  Nothing serious at all.

I am willing to learn a new language, or more correctly a new gui  
tool set.  Even though C is no my strong suite, I can live with it.   
I understand that Python could be a possible candidate.

Anyone willing to share their favorite tool set experiences?  I  
*hope* this isn't too off-topic.

73 - Dale.  KG5LT