Thanks to all. I have a 7 or 8 year laptop that I think will make the perfect dedicated weather station PC. Greg On Jan 25, 2008 7:54 AM, Morten Bjørnsvik <morten.bjornsvik@experian-scorex.no> wrote:
| Greg Freemyer wrote on 24. jan 2008 19:07: |Okay Enthusiasts, | |I'm new to weather stations, so tell me what I'm doing right/wrong. |Anyway these are my thoughts: | Hi
I have a LaCrosse ws2350 connected to opensuse10.2 box. Using the enclosed usb-serial adaptor. The enclosed software was just crap. AFAK most models with serial port are compatible with ws23xx and share almost the same memorymap.
I'm using this excellent perl module for interfacing the ws2350: http://search.cpan.org/~esm/Device-LaCrosse-WS23xx-0.06/lib/Device/LaCrosse/... I found it being way faster and more accurate than open2300 commands for fetching data.
I use rrtdool for storing and presenting the data and a crontab to fetch data and update rrdtool every 5minutes (can be more frequent if you are wired and not wireless).
A similar example related to temp measurement using rrdtool: http://ronin-tech.com/Content/pid=26.html
If you want to control it like resetting high and lows, you must use open2300, but I find it easier to fetch that data out of the rrdtool database.
The only problem I encountered was getting the serial-usb converter to work. the ws23xx protocol is rather strange so not all serial-usb converters seem to work well.
There is a yahoogroup where all the experts hang around: Lacrosse_weather_stations(at)yahoogroups.com
-- MortenB
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