Weather Station

[jskibo]

I was looking at the VWS plugin for Homeseer yesterday and got to thinking of adding a weather station to my setup.

I don't want to spend a ton of money, so would like to keep it below $150.

Anyone know of a decent weather station (temp, wind, humidity, rainfall (or I guess snow now)) that interfaces well with Homeseer?

 

[pete_c]

I'm currently "testing" a Fine Offset wirelessly connected Weather Station. I've had an AAG 1-Wire wind instrument set up for a few years now. The Fine Offset weather station was purchased for $60 plus $24 shipping. I am using it with weather software called Cumulus and running the Cumulus software on a W2003 box and Cumulus web server on an Ubuntu LAMP server and polling the real time text off the web server for variables into my HA stuff. Secondarily I have enabled XAP on the Cumulus software (which is free BTW) to get a duplicate set of variables. It is sold here under various names from various vendors and prices are kind of all over the place for it. I have left the wireless interface in the "server" rack between two servers and the weather station is like maybe 20-30 feet from the house (brick) and in the basement.

I will also be testing the Davis Vantage Vue (on order pending delivery) with a serial connection/logging mod to it such that I do not have to get the weather link piece to it. It will also be utilizing Cumulus software.

Both of the above are wireless and have very small footprints. I am testing a new Homeseer Cumulus plugin which automatically creates the HS variables and writes the number to a db. Its doing this by reading the realtime text either across the network or locally.

 

[jskibo]

Is that Fine model also sold as the Ambient WS-1090?

The Davis is nice, but I think a bit more than I want to spend. Going to check out that Cumulus software. Where's the plugin at?

 

[JeffCharger]

I'm currently "testing" a Fine Offset wirelessly connected Weather Station. I've had an AAG 1-Wire wind instrument set up for a few years now. The Fine Offset weather station was purchased for $60 plus $24 shipping. .

Does anyone know where the Fine Offset (or re-branded version of the same) can be purchased in Canada?

 

[jskibo]

I'm guessing ebay as they are all over there for $119 BIN

 

[pete_c]

Jeff,

Yes I purchased the Fine Offset from the same Ebayer that sells it as a buy it now for $119 in an auction. Only thing was $24 was a bit high for shipping. Think you would have no issues shipping it to Canada. Look for it cheaper though than $119 as shipping is a bit steep.

I lucked out purchasing the Davis Vantage Vue at 3 AM in the morning for under $200. It must have been the right time or maybe no one was watching; No one bid against me. Its been more than a few months of looking for a deal though.

As Adam (mrhappy) about a "test" copy of the plugin for Cumulus. He is still working out the bugs with it. Its using the same mysql dll as Ultra uses for his plugins.

 

[kwilcox]

If HS can import weatherlink data then you might want to take a look at my thread on hcatech about this. In it I describe using a powershell script to pull down weather underground station observations as weatherlink data. The thread is here:

http://hcatech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=396

 

[Swancoat]

Jeff,

Yes I purchased the Fine Offset from the same Ebayer that sells it as a buy it now for $119 in an auction. Only thing was $24 was a bit high for shipping. Think you would have no issues shipping it to Canada. Look for it cheaper though than $119 as shipping is a bit steep.

I lucked out purchasing the Davis Vantage Vue at 3 AM in the morning for under $200. It must have been the right time or maybe no one was watching; No one bid against me. Its been more than a few months of looking for a deal though.

As Adam (mrhappy) about a "test" copy of the plugin for Cumulus. He is still working out the bugs with it. Its using the same mysql dll as Ultra uses for his plugins.

I bought one for my Dad near that price too. However, I didn't read carefully and got the ISS only. No console. (So $200 is just the street price). Console will be another $80 or so. You should check out your auction.