[Xastir] SHOW OF HANDS REQUESTED: Davis Weather Station users

[David A Aitcheson]

On 07/21/2012 05:43 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:34:14PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Tom Russo wrote:
>>
>>> I am unable to test anything rain-related here --- not only do I not have a
>>> Davis unit (I have a LaCrosse), but I live in New Mexico.  We only get about
>>> 7" of rain a year, and I'm invariably away from the computer on the day it
>>> happens.
>> Well, rain I can do...  But Davis I cannot.  I have enough parts for two or three LaCrosse stations and one Dallas One-Wire station.
> Interesting.  
>
> I just started digging into wx.c to see if I could start envisioning a path
> forward for a complete rewrite --- I'm thinking that each type of station
> can set a flag for what kind of data it's actually providing, and higher-level
> code can fill in the missing stuff if (and only if) necessary, rather than
> each case statement having duplicated (!) code for handling things like
> wind chill and this rain handling stuff.
>
> Lo and behold, the first thing I saw was that there is NO code to handle
> rain from Dallas One-Wire.  There is the following comment in its place:
>
>
> // Rain:  I don't have a rain gauge, and I couldn't tell from the
> // "OWW" docs exactly which of the four rain fields did what.  If
> // someone can help me with that I'll add rain gauge code for the
> // Dallas One-Wire.
>                         
> Sigh.

Tom,

These 15 packages in the Ubuntu world may help you:

> libow-2.8-13 (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)
> libow-perl (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)
> libow-php5 (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)
> libow-tcl (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)
> libowcapi-2.8-13 (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)
> owfs (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)
> owfs-common (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)
> owfs-dbg (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)
> owfs-doc (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)
> owfs-fuse (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)
> owftpd (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)
> owhttpd (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)
> owserver (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)
> python-ow (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)
> python-ownet (2.8p13+dfsg1-5build1)

Sorry to say that I do not have any D-OW gear here, or any other weather
gear here for that matter.

73
Dave
KB3EFS


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David A Aitcheson
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