[Xastir] weather station info......

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 acierno at pocketdvm.com wrote:

> My Oregon Scientific WM-918 is on its last legs and I think the rain
> gauge has just died. I was looking at the list of supported weather
> stations (which is quite extensive!) and I was wondering if anyone had
> a recommendation. For price - you cannot beat the WMR-918 wireless
> station - but it seem that it only works on a networked system using
> Wx200 software..... I am not familiar with that software. can I run it
> on the same box as Xastir  and feed the data directly to it?

Yes.


> Another alternative is the davis 6150 vantage pro. the
> vantage pro is listed under supported stations but there are several
> models (wired and wireless) are they all compatible?

Careful with the Davis.  Right now we support that only through some
additional software, with a more extensive setup than with the WX200
software you mention above.  See the xastir/Davis directory for more
details on that.

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