Slightly OT - Weather Station

Well, it is only SLIGHTLY OT.

First of all, an old story. When a person studies to be a private pilot, they carefully study the weather and take great caution when flying in anything but CAVU. By the time they get their commercial ticket, just a few minutes studying the prog charts and such and they feel comfortable in either going or staying. By the time they land a job as an airline pilot, they can just take one good look at a flight attendant and tell whether.

My 15 year old home/shop weather station has crapped out and they want the Lord's own fortune to troubleshoot it. What I'd like to find is some company that sells the outside sensors (wind, temperature, rainfall, baro, and the like) and wirelessly transmits it to a box behind my computer that plugs into the USB port and lets me use an app on the PC when I want to see what the weather is.

Yeah, I know, only a few hundred hours to homebrew such a device and another few dozen to write the software. I've got projects piled on projects, so I'd prefer to design it with a silver pencil ... i.e. I'd prefer to buy rather than scratchbuild.

Anybody got a lead for me?

Jim

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RST Engineering
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On a sunny day (Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:44:25 -0800) it happened RST Engineering wrote in :

Over here you can get anything you want on the internet. I have rain radar, wind maps (direction + strength), satellite IR, temperature maps, weather warnings, barometric pressure, lightning, etc. etc. all for free. I could not do any better with home build or bought equipment. I do have a temp sensor outside though, and a lightning detector. So maybe you could try googling a bit for you local weather, to see what is available.

Look what is here:

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Good luck building or buying that. And that is only a fraction of what is available on those sites.

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Jan Panteltje

Check this site out. They probably have a few stations near you and they also have links to equipment and help setting up your own station. Art

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Artemus

I suppose including the link would help.

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Artemus

If you can't do the wireless, I just tried stringing together some active and passive USB extender cables, for a video camera, and got to

75 feet with no problems. A 30' active extender cable costs about $10 from Amazon.

John

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John Larkin

You mean like one of these ?

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Adrian Jansen

Ok, here are a few.

Davis Instruments, kind of high end Lacrosse Technology, kind of low end Oregon Scientific, kind of middle

There are probably others, but those I can easily recall, since I am considering replacing mine sometime this year.

Bill

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Bill Gill

Nope. That one still has the inside unit as a separate desktop display. I want one that has the receiver that converts the wireless data into something I can display on the computer monitor.

Thanks,

Jim

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RST Engineering

Thanks, Bill, but I've looked at all three of these websites and all of them (unless I've missed something) have the readout as a desktop display with an upload of the data to computer. I want one that drives the computer monitor directly through software.

Thanks,

Jim

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RST Engineering

And that tells you windspeed, rainfall, etc IN YOUR BACK YARD? No, it tells you that data wherever the station is located.

Thanks,

Jim

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RST Engineering

Whatever happened to Heathkit? Dangit!!!

I think I saw something similar in Pop Sci or Pop Mech magazines of late.

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TheGlimmerMan

On a sunny day (Sun, 02 Jan 2011 09:13:25 -0800) it happened RST Engineering wrote in :

Bull, the nearest weather station is a 10 minute drive from here. The weather radar showw EXACTLY where the rain is, IF you can read a map, asomething you aparently can not. Barometric pressure does not change a lot over short distances on flat land. In short: You are an idiot.

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Jan Panteltje

Actually, you are the idiot. Weather radar maps do not have the resolution level to allow *you* to see any differences from a place only ten minutes away.

It all depends on how many moitoring/reporting stations are in your immediate area.

That is beside the FACT that the guy wants HIS OWN, LOCALLY gathered data, you dumbfucktard.

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TheGlimmerMan

Most of them have an interface that connects the display to the computer. Some low end ones do have just a display, but they mostly have some higher level ones that have the computer interface.

If you really don't want the separate display I know that Davis does provide an interface box that connects to the computer without the display. They mostly sell the systems with the display, the one without is an option.

Bill

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Bill Gill

In , TheGlimmerMan wrote in part:

Weather radar has resolution of less than a mile. Among other things, it has to see the "hook echo" rainband that a supercell thunderstorm often has when it has or is about to have a tornado. That rainband has a roughly circular curve, of radius usually only a couple miles or a little less. That rainband is also often a mere mile wide, sometimes less.

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Don Klipstein

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general and consumer - weather station -

and look for:

CAT. NO. XC0348

has everything you asked for including USB

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David Eather

There is also a USB connection so you can read the data on a PC. You can always hide the inside unit somewhere, if you dont like to look at it.

I have not seen one with a PC connection only.

BTW, the electus units seem to be knock-off copies of these:

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Adrian Jansen

The USB connection allows to show the entire display on a PC screen, in real-time, not just download logged data.

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Adrian Jansen

No sir, I can get this configuration in a hundred places. When I say I don't want a display (the last two units failed in display mode) I mean I don't want a display.

Thanks anyway,

Jim

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RST Engineering

Wow, what is so difficult to understand about I DON"T WANT A DISPLAY!!!!

The last couple of weather stations had a failed screen which in turn failed the internals. I DON"T WANT A DISPLAY, WHETHER OR NOT I CAN HIDE IT SOMEWHERE.

Thanks,

Jim

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RST Engineering

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