@Brad-Buskey Right now, Your showweather program is the only project I have loaded. It sure works great! I don't know about you being a newie. Not in my book. Want to add GPS, but not until I get hotspot working. I thought I did, but soon as I shut off radio in radio in router, blank screen on display. Looks like Omega2 will only send data to wireless router. Tried many other fixes. No good. A reason I want hotspot mode is to demo the project at another location like a school. BTW the Moto-G hotspot mode works fine with my Android tablet. Can't find any reference to this subject in the Community. (Except yours) Probably not really mainstream. I guess I'll just wait.

@Brad-Chesney
Hey, I'm not frustrated. I'm just hoping Onion gets frustrated, so they might figure out, they are biting off more than they can chew. Different with The CHIP. They can't make the chips fast enough. Not so with with Arduino or Pi. Timing, Timing, Timing. Especially with the IDE. It gets better with every release. The Omega product should have been 90% done. Kickstarter gives them the horsepower to manufacture it. We, out there help them with updates to make it finally a great product. What a bargain! Not so right now. Maybe later alligator.

@Luciano-S.
Is it the Help Desk? I've tried that way before. The clerk just passes the message on, and it takes a long time for an answer. And usually very vague. Is there a better way to get to someone more direct?

@Victor-Iriciuc
I may be wrong, but I think Kickstarter type companies should change their policies. The prototype product should be 90% fully functional. The public funding should be for final testing, and all the manufacturing and supply chain details. After a predetermined period and fully funded, and 100% completed, the product should be ready to sell to the general public and hopefully will be a success. I know in the real world, it doesn't quite work that way. Just my opinion.

@Costas-Costas
Didn't know there is a Pi Zero W till now! Thanks!

FYI
I ordered the the Raspberry Pi Zero W yesterday to play around with while I wait for Omega2 to get it's many loose ends tied together. Adafruit had 57, now they have none! More on the way, I'm sure!

Thanks People for supporting my quest. To Onion: Just make Omega2 work in the most basic way. And document and explain every step of the way. Yes, I do mean Plug -n- Play, at least right after the box is opened. Even the experts will say "Wow, this is really neat/cool !" And the newbies will be more confident to charge ahead and learn a lot more. Onion will be more respected and they should respect our contributions too. I'm sure they do now, but in a disconnected way it seems.

I've been participating in another Kickstarter program called Outernet. A global satellite information system for poor countries. Outernet has it's own set of very different problems, but still hardware and software. One difference: they are a very small outfit of very dedicated people. Improvements come quick and often because it's one goal centered. To get a no Internet group of people, Information. Not sure about Onion/Omega2. Just another CPU on a little board.
Don

Just about any thing I do that may be incorrect will eventually force me to do factory reset and start all over again. I'm learning that some things can shorten the "back to life time", but still don't know the relationship between this (or/and) that and the causes of the problem/problems. I'm purposely being vague. I will now stand down from the Omega project for a while, maybe 3 months. Best of luck to all who are fixing this or that. I'm not trying to funny. It ain't easy. One thing to the Administrators: Put an Index in the Documentation. It now needs it. Bye from Don.

@Manuel-Godinez
Did you put a "#" on 1st line, then the cron command as the 2nd, and another "#" on the 3rd?

@Brad-Buskey
Could fire up a 16 x 4 LCD laying around, but that's serial. Don't need the effort right now. Think I'll find a little magnifier and mount it right above the display, LOL. More later sir .....

@Brad-Buskey
Brad ... Bringing in all three scripts into GitHub is super! So much easier to learn from your efforts. I sure wish Onion would put a larger size OLED on the board. Seems to be plenty of room horizontally, and make the board bigger vertically. My eyes not so good anymore. I'm getting WX info every 20 minutes like you, just from WU. Think I'll add tiny push button to get it live as a demo. Using Power Dock expansion. No access to other pins except to solder right to Omega2. Bummer!

@Brad-Buskey
OK on -l or list. I now know what the problem is. I chose to use nano to create the crontab. And of course it wanted to put it in /root for I didn't tell it any different. Should have paid attention: it has to be in /etc/crontabs.2380
Thanks for waking me up.
How's the GPS section? Don't have the board, so commented out everything relating to GPS. Was not sure you were done with it.

@Brad-Buskey
What do you see that is wrong?
I tried crontab -1 got back crontab: unrecognized option: 1

I'm playing with a modified script of Brad without GPS. just the OLED expansion. It retrieves weather from Weather Underground. It works very well. I'm trying to use cron and crontab to do this once an hour. Right now it's set for once a minute till I get it working. Here's what the crontab looks like.

*/1 * * * * /root/showweather.py >> /tmp/output.txt 2>&1

Make sure you have this comment at the end of your crontab

(There IS a hash symbol in front of "Make")

I enabled cron with /etc/init.d/cron restart
But, never see cron operating. If I send just this:
/root/showweather.py from terminal, I see the update retrieved from WU on the OLED and the terminal.
Why isn't cron showing any signs of life?