Thanks for the link here from the question I asked about using Campbell dataloggers for gathering weather data.
My quest has been to have the do-it-all station, with sensors of my choosing rather than having a Davis, or a Texas Weather (which has been closest) or who knows what. I have a variety of sensors I've collected and would like to have all my stuff gathering what I want. The Davis seems closest, but isn't perfect although has the market share. TWI went out of business, but was closest to doing what I wanted and with brick outhouse construction. It wasn't easy to change from one wind sensor to another, or get a replacement solar sensor, for instance.
I love Weather Display and while Brian has written a lot of front ends to pull data in, it isn't as if you can have a station for almost everything, and then easily add a solar monitor or two. And I still have some desire to know what order and how to format it into a serial string to read into the program.
That being said, your (Clarkey's) station seems to hit the sweet spot.
Can you elaborate on how the LAN connection reads a 'table' (which I assume is built in the CS on board memory) and then WD pulls it in over that connection? I didn't think that WD could read anything but serial COM ports, but I'm no expert. And I thought it liked to see a string of values, and assigned numbers to say the temperature in position four, wind speed 5, direction 6 and solar in position 9, for example. Can WD be given a table and have it extract info from that?
I have a cheap web server (relatively) that I run Weather 34 for WD on, along with Fresh WDL and is basically fed from my home by WD sending clientraw (I think) via an API module. Once the data are there, then Meteotemplate, FWDL and Weather 34 make all the magic happen, in additon to WD sending it's self generated page up for me to see.
I don't really care about sharing my data with WU or others, so I may be different from many here.
Is there more you can say about the final mile from the sensors, processed and zero crossed and linearity tweaked by the CR1000, where and how you store it internally, and how you go from that internal data to WD? Is it over the LAN or did you hook an RS232 too your PC running WD?
I'm sure I'll have more to think about, but info you furnish to me will be more than I have now!
Thanks a bunch to the repliers and discussion so far.
Dale