On Saturday, July 29, 2017 at 4:41:58 PM UTC-4, Bruce Huddleston wrote: > > I am looking at upgrading my Davis Weather Wizard III components to a more > modern set. I airboss airshows in my spare time and while the Davis set has > served me well for over 10 years it's time to get something more modern and > that has the capability of providing more information.This weather > reporting is only used for airshows around the country. It has to be small > and portable and fit in a small Pelican case. Our company has an Orion > weather station but they are too expensive to purchase another one. We > sometimes have three airshows the same weekend. > > I am looking at the following. > > Computer & Display hardware: > Raspberry Pi 3 Model B > 7" or 10" display with case > 2 skins - Display only what is shown on the attachments in that format. > One is for daytime show and the other (inverse) is used for nightime shows. > No need to keep data as each venue will be different. > > Weather Station hardware: > 1st choice - Use Maretron WSO100 Ultrasonic Weather Station - Uses NMEA > 2000 bus. Will use Maretron USB100 NMEA 200 / USB Gateway. It converts NMEA > 2000 Inputs to NMEA 0183 Outputs to USB. Optionally use an Actisense > NGT-1-USB interface. > : > 2nd choice - Use New Mountain NM150WX Ultrasonic Weather Station - This > unit is twice as expensive as the Maretron but has basically the same > functionality. I see that the NM150WX has already been interfaced to weewx? > > Before I start purchasing this equipment I would like to know if what I am > proposing is possible. Any information group members might have would be > appreciated, especially someone that might have already interfaced the > mentioned hardware to weewx. >
This device might be of interest as well. The SailTimer Wind Instrument <http://www.sailtimerwind.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
