Reply to: Bought a new toy today

[Cliphead]

For those that have one of these thingamabobs.

What are the mounting brackets and pole like? Easy to fix up?

The unit I bought comes with a short pole to mount the sensors which is easy enough. Depending on where you want to mount it you'll need to buy your own and suitable mounting kit.

[Pondlife]

For those that have one of these thingamabobs.

What are the mounting brackets and pole like? Easy to fix up?

[RSoles]

I have a big large screen display they tells me the local weather, it's called a window.

And it's hermetically sealed so that I can calculate the air pressure and windspeed from the way it curves inwards........... Oh hold on, mine are actually doing that tonight......

[SimonMac]

I have a big large screen display they tells me the local weather, it's called a window.

Why not get a clearer view and throw yourself through the window!

[d000hg]

I have a big large screen display they tells me the local weather, it's called a window.

Special glass that changes colour with temperature and humidity?

Nice try with the razor-like wit though. You got the part about being insulting, now you just need to work on making it funny.

[alreadypacked]

Mods...I'm a grumpy old git, do your stuff

FTFY

[Troll]

Thought I should try to become Godlike for my birthday, but I may have left it a bit late.



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[alreadypacked]

Thought I should try to become Godlike for my birthday, but I may have left it a bit late.



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[Cliphead]

Wot, a whole load of text is FTP'd as a file which is parsed by some javascript or something?

Which of these pages is the real one (they both look good):

Langbank Weather Station - Home
Langbank Realtime Weather

I have a number of pages I'm messing around with. The basic HTML pages and live gauges pages come with the Cumulus software. The Ajax pages are PHP but need quite a bit of hacking to work correctly and something I'm still tweaking. You can of course roll your own but there's plenty out there to get a quick start.

Cumulus

[Cliphead]

So in theory you could just configure and leave it to update automatically (got property in Spain that I am wanting set something up similar)? Are the Touch screen panel and USB receiver seperate, IE could you have the Touch Screen in the kitchen, the receiver in the server and the monitor on the roof?

Also second question, I assume you would need the USB receiver in server to get "live" data? Is it very data intensive when uploading?

The model I have (WH1081), comes with a sensor array mounted on a pole and connected to the transmitter unit via cables. The touch sensitive console is also the data logger connected to a Win PC via USB as I mentioned. I let it run constantly connected and FTP'ing the data to my website every 15 seconds, not heavy at all.

[TimberWolf]

Pretty much. The sensor array is in a temporary place until I get the kit delivered to get it mounted on the roof. Wireless to the console unit and a USB connection to the PC although it doesn't have to be connected all the time as it will store a month's worth of weather data.

I use an App called Cumulus which FTP's the data to my website where an assortment of pages display the data in a meaningful form although I'm still tweaking these. The website is hosted elsewhere although I tested locally before going live.

Wot, a whole load of text is FTP'd as a file which is parsed by some javascript or something?

Which of these pages is the real one (they both look good):

Langbank Weather Station - Home
Langbank Realtime Weather

[SimonMac]

So in theory you could just configure and leave it to update automatically (got property in Spain that I am wanting set something up similar)? Are the Touch screen panel and USB receiver seperate, IE could you have the Touch Screen in the kitchen, the receiver in the server and the monitor on the roof?

Also second question, I assume you would need the USB receiver in server to get "live" data? Is it very data intensive when uploading?

[Cliphead]

So whats the stepup here, did you just stick the weather station outside and the USB receiver into your server, do you host your website yourself from the same box?

Pretty much. The sensor array is in a temporary place until I get the kit delivered to get it mounted on the roof. Wireless to the console unit and a USB connection to the PC although it doesn't have to be connected all the time as it will store a month's worth of weather data.

I use an App called Cumulus which FTP's the data to my website where an assortment of pages display the data in a meaningful form although I'm still tweaking these. The website is hosted elsewhere although I tested locally before going live.

[SimonMac]

So whats the stepup here, did you just stick the weather station outside and the USB receiver into your server, do you host your website yourself from the same box?

[TimberWolf]

Looking forward to seeing the wind chill factor and clothes drying time formulae.