[Xastir] Weather station to use with Xastir

[Eric Germann]

As an aside, if you have a LaCrosse 2300 series, Google "open2300".  It 
can read the 2300 series and feed it to CWOP (cw2300).  That's how I did 
it and then had it spit it back to Xastir.  Now I run an instance of 
javAPRSServer to mesh all  my APRS stuff (including open2300 and Xastir) 
so there is only "one" connection to the core from the local APRS server 
instead of about half a dozen from individual clients.

The package can also feed Weather Underground, mysql, etc.

EKG


Gerry Creager wrote:
> 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.