I gave all the details for this kit in my original message on the thread
where I listed the station, its specs etc.
On 10/01/2012 8:43 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:
Hello Dane
What you neglected to say wear which station you have, and if it isn't too
impertinent a question, roughly, what price did you pay for it? If you'd rather
not answer that's fine. We could actually have quite a lot of use for that
within a project that we want to get off the ground later in the year.
Of course I'm just hypothesising at the moment; it may never happen. But, well
we will see.
Lynne
On 9 Jan 2012, at 10:59, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Subject line says it all, I've taken a quick look and I hope to describe what
I've found.
Firstly the person with lack of vision is most likely going to require some
help to install the system.
The whole kit is nicely packaged in a rather large box.
The first thing I noticed was the weather station itself, its a large square
box designed to fit on a wall or a desk and the screen is huge, I'd imagine the
screen is the size it is so that both indoor and outdoor measurements can be
displayed at the same time.
The box has 2 sockets, a USB port - for connection to a computer - and a 3.5MM jack,
not sure what exactly this is for though I suspect its probably for another external
sensor, hope the manual tells us more when we bother to read it<smile>.
The box takes 2 bAA type batteries which are claimed to last for 2 years.
Then there are the sensors for various outdoor weather measurement functions
such as wind speed, rainfall, pressure and so on.
Each sensor has a wire like a telephone lead coming out of these and the plugs
plug into a central wireless unit that's mounted outside along with the
sensors, the sensors and station inside communicate wirelessly.
The outdoor wireless transmitter takes a further 2 batteries of the same type
mentioned before.
There are a whole heap of poles and mounting brackets so I'll save them for sorting
when Dad comes up, give him something to do<smile>.
Now to the software I'll be using which is the Cumulus Weather software which
is available free of charge, it looks nicely accessible when I had another look
at it today though I suspect that a considerable amount of time is going to be
spent tweaking the software to exactly match the details of my weather station
setup.
The user can publish the data from his/her station in a variety of ways, on
Twitter for example or devote a whole web page to what your weather is doing in
your area.
Unfortunately I can go no further with experimentation of the software until my
Weather Station is up and running so I'll keep you all informed and with luck
this time next week I should have a working product of some description.
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