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Overview
This page is about my weather projects - software and hardware. Hardware-wise, my main focus is on instruments interfaced to Dallas 1-Wire® devices. My current weather may be viewed if everything is working properly! Please note that times quoted are for South Australia. My latest addition to my system is the addition of my 1-Wire® beer thermometer. I have also created a year-to-date rainfall report that is created when the current weather report runs (every ten minutes).
I do the majority of my work under Linux (SuSE on most machines, Fedora on my web server.) Most of the applications I work with and develop are web-based, using the Perl programming language and the MySQL database.
For any projects requiring microcontrollers (in other words, when it's quicker to use a generic board and do all the real work in software), I use Atmel AVR devices, programming in C and using the GCC compiler.
The last major revision to this page was made 2005-01-10.
Weather Software
- My current weather software - I am currently working with Nathan Parker's software; this link is to the files containing my modifications and additions.
- dalweathdb-2.2 Nathan Parker's 1-Wire® weather software using the MySQL database.
- Raincalc - Software I'm developing for calculations for rainwater storage, stormwater management, etc. Soon to include geo-referenced rainfall data for the whole of South Australia. This is a CGI application based on Perl and MySQL
- Digitemp is Brian Lane's 1-Wire® weather software for Linux/Unix. Brian's site also has some handy information that I used when I first started wiring things up. I believe that Digitemp has a DOS version and Windows versions available, the latter being unsupported. There is a Digitemp mailing list.
- OWW - Simon Melhuish's One Wire Weather software for Linux and RiscOS. Whilst it doesn't suit my long-term purposes, I found OWW very handy for getting my original weather station off the ground. Both GUI and non-GUI versions available.
- WServer - Arne Henrkisen's 1-Wire® weather software for Windows. Unsupported (old) freeware version plus fully supported shareware version. I haven't used this myself (I don't use Windows), but know Arne through the 1-Wire® mailing list and know that, like Brian and Simon, he provides good, timely, support for his product.
Weather Hardware
- My Weather Station
- AAG Electronica - this Mexican company produces a whole range of 1-Wire® hardware. I am using the AAG 1-Wire Weather Instrument. This device is extraordinarily good value for money, even taking into account international shipping.
- My Lightning Detector
General Resources
- Maxim Dallas 1-Wire page Summary page and product tree of the Maxim Dallas 1-Wire® and iButton® products.
- 1-Wire Weather Mailing List A very helpful mailing list frequented by many developers of 1-Wire weather software.
- 1wire.org Summary from 1wire.org homepage: "This site is devoted to the support of 1-wire manufactures, network designers and end users of 1-wire based products. In other words, the 1-wire community."
- The AVR family from Atmel is a range of powerful 8-bit RISC microcontrollers. NOTE: I am considering a move away from Atmel devices for various reasons - see the Microcontrollers section of my web log.
- The MySQL database homepage. The best database I've ever worked with.
- The Perl programming language. Perl rocks!
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