Okay Enthusiasts, I'm new to weather stations, so tell me what I'm doing right/wrong. Anyway these are my thoughts:
=== I bought my Dad a La Crosse weather station for his birthday so he can monitor the weather at his vacation house. (He's using XP today, but I want to move this to a dedicated Linux machine as soon as I figure out what software to use.) Using XP I configured his system to post to http://www.wxqa.com/ as part of the "Citizen's Weather Observation Program" (CWOP) which I think is connected to the world of Ham operators. (that's a good thing from my Dad's perspective). That in turn is forwarded to findu.com so he can see his weather history on that website. And also the XP system is creating a current conditions image and FTPing it up to a webserver. So what I need to replace is: 1) USB / serial port driver. (ie. the La Crosse weather console has a serial port, but at least currently I have that connected to a serial2usb adaptor that came with it.) 2) Software to read the serial (usb) data and show the current conditions on the screen. 3) Software to grab a copy of the current conditions and post that to a webserver in a nicely formatted view. 4.) Software to post a copy of the current conditions to the cwop servers so findu.com can display it. And I'm thinking of doing all of this on an old laptop, so it can be a small dedicated out of the way machine. That laptop has both a 9-pin serial and a usb port, so I can do whichever is easier. Any advice out there. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
