As you might know the Ambient weather observer models WS-100x don't have a direct option to connect to your PC but can upload data directly through your WiFi Internet access to Weather Underground. When you don't need a console, you can even drop this and use a small Ethernet-based IP bridge, that receives RF data from the stations sensors and uploads that to Weather Underground. Configuration of the bridge is done by a web interface.
When we did some thinking how to make use of this station for our Meteobridge and Meteohub product, we came across using the Meteostick receiver (small USB stick like RF device, which was originally developed to read Davis Vantage RF sensor data) to directly read RF data from the outdoor sensor array of the weather observer station. I am proud to say, that we were successful in this.
As a result Meteobridges and Meteohubs equipped with a Meteostick can now read the outdoor sensor array data without the need for a console or the IP bridge. The Meteobrides differentiate from the IP bridge provided by the station manufacturer by a large list of additional options:
- more weather networks
- WU rapid fire support
- FTP upload to own servers
- twitter support
- template replacements with weather variables
- email sending with weather data included and triggered by individually defined events
- WiFi and Ethernet operation
- weather cam upload via FTP
- annotation of weather cam images with weather data (individually designable)
- ...and much more I don't want to bore you with.
So when you like the WS-100x devices, but want more options to handle the data without powering up your PC (which also can't directly get the data from the station), you might give "wiki.meteobridge.com" a short reading. Ambientweather is also selling a WS-100x Meteobridge/Meteostick bundle (they call it Airbridge) fully licensed, ready to go.
