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Date:      Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:45:31 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Olivier GARNIER <oli.garnier@wanadoo.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: read/write data on usb weather station WMR100
Message-ID:  <20091123174531.GA49267@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4B0A94C7.9030400@wanadoo.fr>
References:  <4B0A94C7.9030400@wanadoo.fr>

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:57:27PM +0100, Olivier GARNIER wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I have an usb weather station (oregon wmr100).
> It's an usb device only.
> I want to be able to get data from it (T=B0, H=B0, wind, ...)

This machine probably only comes with windoze software? If you don't know t=
he
protocol for data exchange used between the hard- and software it might be
difficult getting it to work on FreeBSD.

There seems to be a Linux program (WeatherD) that works with this
station. Maybe you can get that to work? Or you could try running the windo=
ws
softere under emulators/wine.

> I tried to use libusb to make a c software but it seems not to work=20
> (exemple witch are in /usr/ports/devel/libusb/work/...test/ do not work).

Can you elaborate a bit? This is too little info for anyone to help you.

If you plug the device in, do you see an ugen device being created? What do=
es
dmesg report?

> I've seen what's written on /usr/ports/UPDATING (20090309) so i=20
> reinstall libusb

The note you reference only affected what was then CURRENT, i.e. what is now
8.0-PRERELEASE. It shouldn't bother people on 7.x.

> But it since doesn't work. libusb will not work with FreeBSD 7.0 ?

It works.
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Roland
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