After being offline for almost 1 year, I’ve got the old weather station back online – sort of.
I’ve ran into glitches, delays and mainly lack of time to put into this project.
One of the biggest challenges has been placement of the sensors. The anemometer isn’t properly positioned and will not give accurate measurements. The rest is fairly accurate, now.
The big stop in getting back online was placement of the computers and the weather station. The USB extender I had planned to use was unreliable and after a month of trying to get it to stop crashing the system, I gave up on it. Currently the laptop sits beside the weather station, but this configuration cannot be permanent.
Also, the station is now 6 years old and when I had it down, I found that the solar rechargeable batteries have expired. Replacement cost $150. So I’m now investigating a new replacement station.
Also the software I’ve been using, FreeWX-Wi, has stopped development and no more fixes will be issued. I was having problems with one temperature sensor not reporting correctly in the software. So I need to try implementing a new software package. For now I’ll continue to use it to display current conditions.
So where does this leave me. Pondering over a new more accurate weather station and a shiny new site and setup.
Until then, the site will offer basic data information updated every minute.
