[Xastir] Weather station to use with Xastir

[Gerry Creager]

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Gerry Creager wrote:
> 
>> Davis, Peet Bros., Oregon Scientific...  I'd suggest any of those, but
>> in about that order.
> 
> Be aware that Davis and Lacrosse support involves running additional
> programs plus a MySQL instance in order to feed Xastir.  See the
> xastir/Davis and xastir/LaCrosse directories for additional info.
> 
> Xastir directly supports the Peet Bros, Oregon
> Scientific/Huger/Radio Shack, and Dallas Semiconductor/AAG One-Wire.
> Just hook them to a serial port and tell Xastir to use them.
> 
> Probably the Peet Bros and Davis are the higher quality types, so
> they'll last out in the elements longer.
> 
> The Lacrosse and Oregon Scientific/Huger/Radio Shack types give you
> lots of sensors out of the box, but they might not last as long.
> 
> The Dallas Semiconductor station was designed to promote their
> One-Wire sensors, and now AAG sells a similar model.  This is a
> ground-floor way to get in to WX stations, and you can add sensors
> as you go.  Probably at somewhat the low end of the scale on
> robustness and engineering:  The temp sensor is inside the white
> plastic housing and rises as the sun heats up that housing.  The
> wind direction sensor depends on reed switches and has 16? possible
> outputs for direction.  There are mods you might want to make if you
> use this sytem in order to get more accurate outside temperature.
> By the time you add a bunch of sensors this one will cost you
> plenty.

Good points; thanks.  The "external" program I use, wview, doesn't talk 
to xastir directly (might try to make it into a network server for 
xastir in my spare time; yeah, right!) but does the lifting of sending 
the data to findu appropriately via the APRS-IS and works and plays 
nicely with xastir in other regards.  I also like the logic behind it, 
and its ability to provide a web page with its local station data.
-- 
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