Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Paul William
Any suggestions for weather stations (a piece of equipment, not an online station) that a linux box can talk to? I assume a serial port is the interface of choice here. The old fashioned way - use wget, curl or perl to rip any data you want off the numerous weather info sites on the net

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Olav Lavell
Op za 11-10-2003, om 04:51 schreef Arnt Karlsen: ..http://www.ibutton.com/weather/ ? Found it from http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+PC+%22weather+station+sensors%22 Or perhaps even http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/index.asp? -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-11T11:07:10Z, Paul William [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (a piece of equipment, not an online station) The old fashioned way - use wget, curl or perl to rip any data you want off the numerous weather info sites on the net. Erm, that's not what he wants. He wants to interface with a

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
suggestions for weather stations (a piece of equipment, not an online station) that a linux box can talk to? I assume a serial port is the interface of choice here. The second part is for a web site to fetch the data and convert it into some type of display suitable for a web page

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
) the data to some location every so often. Any suggestions for weather stations (a piece of equipment, not an online station) that a linux box can talk to? I assume a serial port is the interface of choice here. The second part is for a web site to fetch the data and convert

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread kmark
to some location every so often. Any suggestions for weather stations (a piece of equipment, not an online station) that a linux box can talk to? I assume a serial port is the interface of choice here. The second part is for a web site to fetch the data and convert

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 04:52:28PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 11:51, Pigeon wrote: A dead-tree advert I have suggests http://www.ObservantWorld.com , who make a thing called a Data Station that gives you a bunch of analogue and digital inputs and outputs and is

Weather Stations

2003-10-10 Thread Bill Moseley
Actually, there's two parts. First we need a machine to collect data from an inexpensive weather station and then copy (ftp/scp) the data to some location every so often. Any suggestions for weather stations (a piece of equipment, not an online station) that a linux box can talk to? I

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-10 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Bill: Dallas Semiconductor sold weather stations several years ago that could talk to Linux (as well as that other OS). It was about $80US. I believe that another firm is now marketing the product. A google search ought to find it. The base system includes wind speed and direction

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:33:33 -0600, Dean Allen Provins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill: Dallas Semiconductor sold weather stations several years ago that could talk to Linux (as well as that other OS). It was about $80US. I believe that another firm is now

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-10 Thread kmark
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: Actually, there's two parts. First we need a machine to collect data from an inexpensive weather station and then copy (ftp/scp) the data to some location every so often. Any suggestions for weather stations (a piece of equipment, not an online