Bought the Davis VP2!

[d_l]

Glad you guys are happy...Quick question: How much in additioon expense does it take to put the davis VP2 online to upload to Weather Underground or a personal webpage? Thanks,

Steve, at a minimum, you need a Weatherlink logger.  The serial or USB versions cost about $109-120 and the IP version costs about $185-195.  With the accompanying "free" software, you can up load to WU or your web site if you have a computer running 24/7. The IP version can also handle the uploads without the computer, but at a lower upload frequency.

You can get fancier with other weather software and/or a miniLinux computer to cut energy use, but, of course, these options cost more.

[Bushman]

Glad you guys are happy...Quick question: How much in additioon expense does it take to put the davis VP2 online to upload to Weather Underground or a personal webpage? Thanks,

Steve, at a minimum, you need a Weatherlink logger.  The serial or USB versions cost about $109-120 and the IP version costs about $185-195.  With the accompanying "free" software, you can up load to WU or your web site if you have a computer running 24/7. ...

Does not have to be 24/7 - you can do periodic uploads to your own page whenever you like.  I upload twice a day sicne I'm currently on dial-up (soon to be WiMax).  Once I get high speed I will  go 100% live.  But right now it works well.  I use a timer on the Netbook to wake it up on a schedule to upload.

[JACK10562]

Glad you guys are happy...Quick question: How much in additioon expense does it take to put the davis VP2 online to upload to Weather Underground or a personal webpage? Thanks,

Steve

Steve, basically it costs you nothing to upload your weather data to Weather Underground or APRS/CWOP (NOAA). The only things needed are an always-on broadband internet connection and leave a computer with a suitable software program running 24/7.
If you want to have a personal weather website then you need to purchase a domain name and hire a web hosting company, ie: 1&1, GoDaddy, etc.

Some Internet service providers allocate personal web space to their subscribers but that may or may not work for a live weather site.

[SlowModem]

Steve, basically it costs you nothing to upload your weather data to Weather Underground or APRS/CWOP (NOAA). The only things needed are an always-on broadband internet connection and leave a computer with a suitable software program running 24/7.

I have three stations on one computer uploading to WU, Weatherforyou, and CWOP using dialup.  It's just a few 0's and 1's every few seconds.