El cheapo weather station. - Page 6

snowyskiesau · #**101** 22-04-2008, 05:32 PM

Anyone know if there is a website to which we can upload our weather station data for others to look at?
Seems to me this is the sort of data that can be shared to the advantage of other IIS members.

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**102** 22-04-2008, 05:55 PM

Gee - bidding on these units is still fierce on Ebay

how many of you are trying to outbid one and other ?

geoff

acropolite (Phil) · #**103** 23-04-2008, 09:50 AM

There's nice free web server software for XP that you can use at home called Xerver can be downloaded here. To use it you will need to open a port up on your DSL router, usually port 80 but you can use any port if you wish. It also has an FTP server capability and it's easy to set up and very effective. I've also seen on some weather sites that some users have a script in their sigs that plucks the weather data from their site and displays in their sig. http://tamarvalley.boldlygoingnowhere.org/myweather.htm is served on a spare PC at home and is running Xerver. The weather data isn't current as I have some reconfiguration to do before I re-enable the weather display software.

Dujon · #**104** 23-04-2008, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowyskiesau

Anyone know if there is a website to which we can upload our weather station data for others to look at?
Seems to me this is the sort of data that can be shared to the advantage of other IIS members.

Yes, Geoff. A couple of addresses for you.

http://www.wunderground.com/

http://www.localweather.com.au/

The last one requires you to be running Weather Display Live which in turn requires Weather Display. I'm not too sure about the wunderground site but it does accept information from my programs - the two mentioned. Whether it will work with yours I don't know, though it shouldn't be too hard to check that.

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**105** 23-04-2008, 07:32 PM

16 bids on one item with an hour to go !

and looks like a new seller in the market

hopefully mine will be delivered to-morrow

geoff

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**106** 23-04-2008, 07:36 PM

well - only 8 bidders now i have a closer look
and it's an hour and a half left

geoff

turbo_pascale (Rob) · #**107** 24-04-2008, 10:56 PM

For those interested, I just paid for my copy of "weather display", and asked the author about direct support for these stations, rather than the reliance on the data file reading.

He told me in an email last night:

"yes, direct support of the ws1080 station should be only a week or so away now"

ie. you don't have to run the bloody stupid easyweather software that chews up ridiculous amounts of CPU all the time and is really unstable!

As soon as the new software comes out to support it, I'll let you know how I go.

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**108** 25-04-2008, 03:38 AM

Ok - progress so far

http://www.gtbastrowise.com.au/weather/wx.html.html

"easyweather" data displayed by "weather display"

geoff

Gargoyle_Steve (Steve) · #**109** 25-04-2008, 06:23 AM

Looks good Geoff!!
Hoping to create a new personal webpage myself soon to include my astro and weather interests.

I've got my station sending data up to Weather Underground (station ID IQLDAROO2) but I've got a problem with Weather Display reading data wrong somehow.

Eg station says it's 21.4°, EasyWeather on PC shows 21.4°, but Weather Display somehow reads this as 22.6° and sends online to WUnderground the same way. Similar thing with humidity - figures move up and down pretty much in accord with what the station says, but there's this difference and I don't think it's due to any "offset" settings.

Initially my inside temp and humidity showed correct, only the external temp and humidity were wacked - so I did as someone else suggested, powered down/reset the station itself, deleted the .DAT file, then started it all up again and got it logging.

Now I have BOTH internal and external figures being read wrong by Weather Display!

When I get home I'll try the reset again, but I'm curious to know Geoff (and anyone else!) if your ebay cheapiestation is also the 1081 model, and have you set Weather Display to treat it like a WS1080 model or something else?

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**110** 25-04-2008, 11:52 AM

yes model is 1081 Steve

and i set it as the ws1080 model using the dat file

stuffed my pages up now playing around

getting a custom page up is a pain

geoff

Gargoyle_Steve (Steve) · #**111** 25-04-2008, 03:27 PM

Thanks Geoff for that confirmation!

I'll be keen to see how you go customising your data layout, please do keep us posted!

Steve

waterslinger · #**112** 29-04-2008, 02:09 PM

Hey everyone, I'm new to the forums here.
I recently purchased an WS1081 Wireless Weather Station from ce-technologies store on Ebay.
works fine, however the PC download function hasnt worked properly it fails to download the data - does anyone know whether this is because the TX battery Icon is flashing on my receiver? Any help would be appreciated, as the instructions that come with the unit are pretty basic!

Cheers,
waterslinger

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**113** 29-04-2008, 07:50 PM

i had trouble getting easyweather to download on my win2000 machine

at a guess i think it was USB related problem

worked fine on XP

geoff

waterslinger · #**114** 01-05-2008, 11:00 AM

Hey all,

Here is the email I sent to Sinometer:

ATT MR TONY GUAN

Hello I am from Australia and I own a WS 1081 Wireless Weather Station
It is great however the PC USB connection function doesn’t work anymore.
It brings up error message
Read weather setup data fail
This is with the USB connected into computer and Weather Station properly.
When I first got it, it worked fine, but then I tried again the next day, and it brought up the error.
Whenever I try to go into setup it brings up “read weather alarm data fail , read scope data fail, and wont allow me to save options!
Please help!!!!
I’ve tried it on another computer of mine still with the same error.
Why does the Sinometer site have no information about the WS1081?
Can you please send me an up to date version of the software?

And here is the reply I received:

Well, I'm sorry, no superman knows the problems without checking it on site.
Maybe the USB port is damaged, maybe the software....

But you can try with the attached software.

Best regards
Tony GUAN, Sales manager

SINOMETER INSTRUMENTS CO., LTD.
Addr: Rms 2410-11, 24/F., Sunshine Golf Building., 7008 Shennan Blvd., ShenZhen 518040, China.
Tel: +86-755-8287 2661,2,3; Fax: +86-755-8287 2660
Email: sales@sinometer.com, tony@sinometer.com, tony.sinometer@gmail.com (new), sinometer@sina.com
Website: www.sinometer.com

waterslinger · #**115** 01-05-2008, 11:10 AM

So.....
I tried the new attached software, it had a proper install file this time, unlike the drag and drop instructions for the stupid little CD that came with the unit.
Same errors, read weather data fail, then read alarm data fail, read scope data fail. So then I noticed there was a link to another company "Final Offset Electronics" Hmmmm It appears its not made by Sinometer afterall.
Tried this other software, brings up the same damn error, arghh...........

Anyone else having these problems with their station?

Cheers,

waterslinger

acropolite (Phil) · #**116** 01-05-2008, 11:06 PM

Quote:

Anyone else having these problems with their station?

Not mine, reads no problem with easyweather, do you have another PC that you can try it on??

Gargoyle_Steve (Steve) · #**117** 02-05-2008, 01:51 AM

I have to say that I'm not having any problems like that either, but the flashing TX battery thing sounds ominous and maybe that's a big part of whats going on.

Just a thought, you DO have good fresh proven batteries in the remote sender unit (temp sensor) and in the main unit itself?
(I did take mine out of the main unit briefly to see if it would run on USB power, it does - at least for a minute or so anyway, that's as long as I tried it.)

Any chance you can post / give us a link / send the new "attached" software they sent you? I'd be very curious to see what it's like as the only problem I do have is that every now and then (twice a day?) I close Easy Weather for a couple of minutes and start it again to stop it bogging my system right down, if there's a betetr option to running Easy Weather I'd like to see it.

Hope you manage to sort your issues out!

Steve

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**118** 02-05-2008, 04:20 PM

new version of weather display now available for ws1081

geoff

acropolite (Phil) · #**119** 02-05-2008, 06:49 PM

Thanks Geoff, I'll download right away.

........a few hours in to the future....

Done and installed, the USB interface works nicely. Version is 10.37J. I guess it's time to make some real sense customising the web interface, I've had it working but with the default pages. For anyone who needs the WD link it's here.

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**120** 03-05-2008, 12:27 AM

mine seems to be working ok

check the "weather" link on my web page

geoff