inxi system info made easy

[dedanna1029]

Nice.

There are files that will work without the extension. For instance, I just ran dmesg >dmesg and dmesg >dmesg.txt both, with same outputs.

I think it depends on what you're outputting from, and what you're doing, but I always put the .txt on there anyway, just in case.

[viking60]

As we all know you cannot provide system support without knowing how the weather is
Inxi takes care of this too If you do a

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inxi -w

it should give you the weather at your location (Well because naturally you are to busy to look out of the window).

To check out the weather in other parts of the world you need to specify some more like this;

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inxi -W oslo,norway

So apparently this is the weather here:
Conditions: 61 F (16 C) - Mostly Cloudy Time: October 8, 2:23 PM CEST
Now let us have a look at Sunny California:

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inxi -W san+fransisco,CA

Weather: Conditions: 55 F (13 C) - Partly Cloudy Time: October 8, 5:32 AM PDT
Or the world famous Portales in New Mexico:

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inxi -W portales,NM

Weather: Conditions: 50 F (10 C) - Clear Time: October 8, 6:31 AM MDT

Hey! it is warmer in Oslo (Well not that surprising at 2,23PM in Oslo and 5,32 AM in San Fransisco )

Double names like San Fransisco and New York cannot have spaces so they must be filled out with a +
Hm I wonder how the weather is on the Canary Islands:

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inxi -W las+palmas,spain

Weather: Conditions: 73 F (23 C) - Scattered Clouds Time: October 8, 7:42 AM EST
Yeah that's more like it.
Some distros have chosen to disable this feature so if it does not work - thats why.

[jkerr82508]

Thanks for the hints. Here's what I get:

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inxi -w
Weather:   Conditions: 63 F (17 C) - Mostly Cloudy Time: October 9, 1:14 AM BST

Which is obviously not my local weather as shown when I use the nearest major weather station

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inxi -W edinburgh,uk
Weather:   Conditions: 52 F (11 C) - Partly Cloudy Time: October 9, 1:15 AM BST

and the explanation is:

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inxi -xxx -w
Weather:  Conditions: 63 F (17 C) - Mostly Cloudy Wind: From the West at 9 MPH Humidity: 72%
           Pressure: 30.24 in (1024 mb) Location: None None (GBR) Altitude: 14 ft
           Time: October 9, 1:15 AM BST (Europe/London) Observation Time: October 9, 12:50 AM BST

I assume that London is where my ISP's servers are located.

Jim

[viking60]

Ah good to have our oracle berserk back with interesting inputs
I get an accurate location when I do an

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inxi -xxx -w

Weather: Conditions: 48 F (9 C) - Scattered Clouds Wind: From the SSW at 7 MPH Humidity: 87%
Pressure: 29.59 in (1002 mb) Location: Valhalla 01 (NOR) Altitude: 60 ft
Time: October 9, 8:34 AM CEST (Europe/Oslo) Observation Time: October 9, 8:20 AM CEST

This is exactly right while my server is nowhere near here
It might have something to do with how the ISP's are organizing this or maybe where the weather stations are.
..Or maybe all accounts go via the big GCHQ server in London

(You know if the scottish get to have their own weather - they will be rioting for independence next. These things have to be controlled )

If I make an error with the location inxi seems to anticipate that the place is somewhere in America (or wherever MDT is - but that is also the server location so you might have a point):

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[thomas@heidi-lap ~]$ inxi  -W hamburg,DE
Weather:   Conditions: 30 F (-1 C) - Partly Cloudy Time: October 9, 1:02 AM MDT


Now this is hardly the case in Hamburg germany and MDT is not the correct timezone
This is probably correct though:

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[thomas@heidi-lap ~]$ inxi  -W hamburg,germany
Weather:   Conditions: 57 F (14 C) - Mostly Cloudy Time: October 9, 9:01 AM CEST


CEST timezone indicates that this is in central europe