Looking to buy a home weather station that I can do data logging and posting to wunderground.com. Anyone using a home weather station that is hooked up to their Mac?
Cheers,
Mike
I just followed some links from the wunderground.com and found at least 7 or 8 possable answers to your question. Thanks. I might get into this.
What I'd do is look at the software first. the site lists three software solutions for the Mac and many, many more for Linux. I assume that all of the free open source Linux software will run just fine on Mac OS X. There are also a number of Perl scripts. Perl wil run on
anything including Mac OS X
So it looks like there are at least a half dozen software solutions. I'll be downloading some of these and trying them out Next, each of the software only support only a few weather stations. I'm thinking of making a list and then norrowing it down to only the hardware that has wide software sopport. After that I'll look at price and how well it is made..
One other thing: Is Mac OS X really the best OS to host this? I'm thinking not. First off a weather station needs to run 24x7 year after year and a mac is a pretty expensive machine to tie up that way. I think I'll use a very, very old Pentium notebook computer. I have an 120Mhz machine that has 80MB of RAM. This is enough to run a stripped down Linux or BSD system and a simple Perl script. A notebook with the display turned off uses very little power. Well I guess a Mac might work too it it were an old "clam shell" iBook or something like that.
Thanks for pointing this out. Maybe we can add to this thread as we figure stuff out.