[opensuse] Personal Weather Stations
Okay Enthusiasts, I'm new to weather stations, so tell me what I'm doing right/wrong. Anyway these are my thoughts: === I bought my Dad a La Crosse weather station for his birthday so he can monitor the weather at his vacation house. (He's using XP today, but I want to move this to a dedicated Linux machine as soon as I figure out what software to use.) Using XP I configured his system to post to http://www.wxqa.com/ as part of the "Citizen's Weather Observation Program" (CWOP) which I think is connected to the world of Ham operators. (that's a good thing from my Dad's perspective). That in turn is forwarded to findu.com so he can see his weather history on that website. And also the XP system is creating a current conditions image and FTPing it up to a webserver. So what I need to replace is: 1) USB / serial port driver. (ie. the La Crosse weather console has a serial port, but at least currently I have that connected to a serial2usb adaptor that came with it.) 2) Software to read the serial (usb) data and show the current conditions on the screen. 3) Software to grab a copy of the current conditions and post that to a webserver in a nicely formatted view. 4.) Software to post a copy of the current conditions to the cwop servers so findu.com can display it. And I'm thinking of doing all of this on an old laptop, so it can be a small dedicated out of the way machine. That laptop has both a 9-pin serial and a usb port, so I can do whichever is easier. Any advice out there. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:06:39 Greg Freemyer wrote:
Okay Enthusiasts,
I'm new to weather stations, so tell me what I'm doing right/wrong. Anyway these are my thoughts:
Have a look at the following websites - should include most of the info you are looking for: http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Open2300/WebHome http://sourceforge.net/projects/open2300/ http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Open2300/WeatherGraphsPHP http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dshelms/cwop.html#Weather%20Software%20Support...: -- Regards Scott Newton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
| 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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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