Monthly Archives: February 2015

Hydrogen sulfide gas smells like rotten eggs — If your hot water smells like rotten eggs, don’t panic. It’s almost certainly something you can fix on your own, and there are a few different ways you can try to fix it. First, to make sure your hot water heater is the source (and that this is the blog post you’re […]

How to Fix Rotten Egg Smell in your Water

This entry was posted in DIY and tagged plumbing rotten egg smell smelly water sulfur smell water water water heater on February 20, 2015 by Steve Jenkins (updated 2372 days ago)

MeteoBridge Push Services tab with MySQL query included. — In my initial review of the MeteoBridge weather station interface device, I discussed its basic features, and briefly mentioned that it also included more advanced functionality, including the ability to store weather data from your weather station in a MySQL database (or a MySQL-compatible one, like MariaDB). But after searching online for an […]

Storing Weather Station Data in MySQL from MeteoBridge

This entry was posted in Linux Technology and tagged Davis MeteoBridge weather station on February 15, 2015 by Steve Jenkins (updated 3567 days ago)

standard MeteoBridge hardware configuration — I’ve been a weather geek (or as weather geeks would write it: “Wx geek”) since 2001, when I bought an Oregon Scientific WMR968 weather station. Within a couple of years, I’d connected my weather station’s console via a serial cable to a dedicated computer in my basement running Windows 95 and Ambient’s Virtual Weather Station (VWS) software, which […]

Product Review & How-To: Using MeteoBridge to Connect your Weather ...

This entry was posted in Home Theater & Automation Linux Product Reviews Technology and tagged Belfryboy data-logger Davis MeteoBridge MeteoBridge review product review review upload weather station Weather Underground on February 3, 2015 by Steve Jenkins (updated 3311 days ago)