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bighornram:
Hello, I'm Jeff from Farmington, NM USA.  I'm looking at getting a station for hobby only.  I have a home network that I would like to feed live weather data to.  I run all Debian linux machines.  Is there a particularly better system to get which will interface with my network?  I have a web server running with php at https://www.partypatio.net.  A streaming video runs also.  I'm looking at the Oregon WMR100 or WMR-968.  Solar power seems like a good idea as I am in the sunny southwest US.  Thanks for any suggestions.

windy:
Hi
check out WD for linux (and the new compiler version), which works with both of those stations
(note,you will need the latest GTK version and the 2nd to last glibc version is best suited)

jaded:

--- Quote from: bighornram on November 22, 2007, 03:40:27 PM ---Hello, I'm Jeff from Farmington, NM USA.  I'm looking at getting a station for hobby only.  I have a home network that I would like to feed live weather data to.  I run all Debian linux machines.  Is there a particularly better system to get which will interface with my network?  I have a web server running with php at http://www.partypatio.net.  A streaming video runs also.  I'm looking at the Oregon WMR100 or WMR-968.  Solar power seems like a good idea as I am in the sunny southwest US.  Thanks for any suggestions.


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There is a quite nice GPL'd open source package for Davis weather stations called Meteo (http://meteo.othello.ch/)  It supports their less expensive Weather Monitor II and Perception series as well as their top-end Vantage Pro series.  Many of us have had very good luck with Davis hardware, but I know it can be fairly expensive.  (I know their Vantage Pro series is available in wireless solar-powered configurations, but I don't know about their others.)

Meteo itself is a set of demons that read from the weather equipment, write to a MySQL database, and analyze the data, and some cron jobs to format the data to a series of .png charts and .html web pages.

I would guess that since only one of the Meteo demons actually talks to the weather station, it should certainly be possible to port it to read from another manufacturer's hardware.  (Of course that's assuming you want to actually do that much work, and know how to program.)

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