Hi Greg, I personally would try to get everything done with a solution that's as close to off-the-shelf as possible. WeeWX certainly can help you getting data from the off-the-shelf devices and relay them in any other form. What are the real issues in such events? The amount of rain, or the river stage? Yes, they are connected, but two years ago, a couple of villages just a couple of kilometers from my station, were heavily flooded, my station reported much rain, but just a few km away the amount of rainfall was more than triple of the amount that fell at my location. So even with a rather dense network of stations, there is a good chance to miss a huge part of what is happening. Wouldn't it be more significant to measure the levels of rivers and creeks upstream? Are power and communication infrastructure outages, during such events, an issue?
Greg Hall schrieb am Montag, 6. November 2023 um 13:03:06 UTC+1: > Record-breaking floods in the Northern Rivers regions of the state of New > South Wales in Australia last year has set us looking for a way to report > hourly, or more frequent, rainfall intensity, to better inform those > downstream. > > As the official gauge network is sparse and flaky, our present 'solution' > is a few human Rain Sentinels' who live high up in the catchment. They > agree to read their gauges hourly and get the readings out, by phone as > long as that lasts (not very), then CB radio. > > We haven't had much success with off-the-shelf weather stations, but maybe > there are WeeWx gurus who would know how to help script such a reporting > function. > > I've bought a couple of 8" tipping bucket gauges, and am playing with > Arduino code to keep daily, tips per minute files, on a local SD card, to > be relayed on to a LORA-APRS system (o.n.o), and as last resort, on a local > display. > > Any guidance or assistance very welcome. > > Greg > VK2GTH > - > > -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b09e4e25-fea7-4c0a-9510-072619c86a78n%40googlegroups.com.
