I've finally
bought a WS-2300 weather station, pics of which will appear at the
bottom of this page shortly, showing my setting up and in use at home.
Below are the readings I'm getting, these are being captured via COM
port to my linux server, which also uploads to WeatherUnderground.
The graphs shown are directly loaded from Wunderground.com, but will be replaced shortly by my own. Refresh is every 5 minutes.
17/01/2005 : Added weather page to site
17/01/2005 : Need to check direction facing of weather vane, and make sure its not affected by trees/surroundings
20/01/2005 : Wind speed/direction isn't working as it should,
not showing the correct windspeeds or directions, so I'm guessing I
need to re-mount the weather vane.
21/01/2005 : DOWN. The weather
monitoring connection to the server (via serial) is down for some
reason. I'll investigate tonight, ignore the strange readings!! (114mph
winds for example!)
21/01/2005 : Sensors are active again, not sure what caused
the failure earlier on, probably interference so will investigate this
weekend
08/02/2005 : I've settled the sensor malfunctions down now.
It looks like if it cannot communicate with the ws it gives erratic
numbers, so i've put sanity checking in now on the server.
28/02/2005 : Problems with my ADSL connection (Faulty
router/modem) are causing it to drop out/loose connection. My adsl
provider Eclipse have sorted an RMA (THATs service for you, its almost
2yrs old now!!)
06/08/2005 : Hmm, no rainfall being shown and its pouring
down outside, have noticed a few sensor drop-outs.. Batteries replaced
and will continue to monitor it.
07/08/2005 : Rainfall sensor isn't working at all, so its
disconnected at present. Also found a tree branch leaning on the wind
sensor so directional/speed won't be accurate. Will repair this
weekend.
11/09/2005 : The wind sensors is now unjammed, so wind
readings are back to normal. I've sorted a fix for the rainsensor, and
will complete that this week hopefully.
10/04/2006: I've setup the weather station at the new house, unfortunately the wind sensor isn't operating correctly at the moment due to location, so I'll have this accurately reporting very shortly.
30/04/2006: Due to a change at weatherunderground the upload software stopped working. I've now found the fix via the wu2300 mailing lists and its back in operation now. Sorry for the lack of data the past week or so!
23/08/2006: Problems due to my server upgrades and IP renumbering caused weather reporting to be down for the past week or so. It is all back now, however no history/weather was recorded during this time.
10/01/2007: Modified the open2300 source-code to handle Weather Undergrounds live updates page
The beaufort scale used for wind measurement is shown below for reference: