kf0rt
11-20-2012, 08:06 PM
Kinda new and something a bit fun.
Bought a Davis "Vantage Vue" weather station. Always wanted to get into this a bit and a good pal at work turned me on to a decent deal at scientificsales.com (not advertising, just sayin').
Arrived UPS yesterday and mounted the sensor deal on the chimney today using one of those strap mount things, a piece of a fence pole from Home Despot and only ONE band-aid. Been playing with it all day. Bought the USB module for the computer connection and must admit that the Davis software pretty much blows chunks (looks like a lot of the ham radio software I've seen -- Windows 3.1 interface?, ugh.).
Got the "Cumulus" software up and running (donate-ware) and that looks pretty good. Really pretty well done -- feeding it to the web now, but want to see what else is out there. Link is: http://www.westton.com/kf0rt/webcam/index.htm No real history yet, but it's "accumulating." Might add a a datapoint to the Weather Underground stuff as I learn more. Webcam's up too, and this computer STILL sucks.
Anyone else into this?
Bought a Davis "Vantage Vue" weather station. Always wanted to get into this a bit and a good pal at work turned me on to a decent deal at scientificsales.com (not advertising, just sayin').
Arrived UPS yesterday and mounted the sensor deal on the chimney today using one of those strap mount things, a piece of a fence pole from Home Despot and only ONE band-aid. Been playing with it all day. Bought the USB module for the computer connection and must admit that the Davis software pretty much blows chunks (looks like a lot of the ham radio software I've seen -- Windows 3.1 interface?, ugh.).
Got the "Cumulus" software up and running (donate-ware) and that looks pretty good. Really pretty well done -- feeding it to the web now, but want to see what else is out there. Link is: http://www.westton.com/kf0rt/webcam/index.htm No real history yet, but it's "accumulating." Might add a a datapoint to the Weather Underground stuff as I learn more. Webcam's up too, and this computer STILL sucks.
Anyone else into this?