[Buying a weather station]

Hi again,

Looks like it will be the Oregon WMR928X. I couldn't persuade them that I was worth the Davis.

Martin, you mentioned in one of your posts about 1 wire systems. Does the Oregon support this as I would like to have a lightning detector.

Many thanks

Dave

[Buying a weather station]

1. In the "Connections" page, check that the Main Internet switch is ON.

Martin, That did the trick

Time to play ...

Many thanks for your help, I'll be back ...

Dave

[Buying a weather station]

Martin, the FTP download still seems a bit iffy. I have to press the "Test" button each time to get a download. It won't download each hour.

I've done the rest - thanks !

Dave

[Buying a weather station]

Hi again Martin,

I've used a different Metar downloader which I pointed to the wdisplay\metar directory and got a downloaded file OK. It looks like this

EGUB|02/03/2008 11:13:01 PM|44.6|7|37.4|3|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|29.83|1010|230|8|KT|75|Mostly Cloudy|80|76

Does this look OK?

I'll keep trying with the downloader in Weather Display.

There are 2 small squares at the bottom of the main display just below the date & time, called Data Received and Data Quality. The Data Received is coloured red with a counter 10891 and rising. The Data Quality square is green. What is their significance?

cheers

Dave

[Buying a weather station]

Hi Martin, not sure where my previous reply went but here goes again.

Tried eveything you suggested but I don't get the EGUB.met file in the directory. The FTP log files show

*******list of files uploaded********

*******actual messages from upload session********

***Start Time/date***:20:30:06 02/03/2008

Permanent connection selected

Permanent connection, will do ftp now

Checking for what else to do...

there are 1 more things to do

Next file HTTP metar station download

http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observati...ar/decoded/EGUB

Downloading to :c:\wdisplay\metar\EGUB.met

final download setting=c:\wdisplay\metar\EGUB.met

Finished downloading metars

Finshed email agenda

Finished email agenda, no FTP items to do...

Doing abort procedure/program close...

and

FTPUPD.EXE finished at 20:30:08 02/03/2008

Time taken = 0.02 minutes

Total bytes uploaded = 0 K

Total bytes uploaded for the day = 0.00 Mb

Total bytes uploaded for the month = 0.00 Mb

Any ideas?

many thanks for your help

Dave

ps Is there any way of getting a bunch of historical information?

thanks again !!

[Buying a weather station]

If it's a REALLY special birthday then you can't go wrong with the Davis Vantage Pro 2, but you need to buy a data logger as well to connect it to a PC. These are big money but worth it. :lol:

Hi HebWX, I've looked at the price of the Davis and I don't think the family will see the birthday as that special

So how do I download the data from Benson EGUB?

thanks

Dave

[Buying a weather station]

I don't know of any reason It's not mentioned much apart from the price maybe.

There is usually software usually with the weather station but It's quite basic. If you want a good piece of weather software Weather display I would say is a good one.

http://www.ukweathershop.co.uk/acatalog/weatherdisplay.html

Thanks Glen,

I've downloaded the trial version so will give it a go.

regards,

Dave

[Buying a weather station]

New to this forum so be nice

My family want to get me a weather station for a "special" birthday. I like the look of the La Crosse 2500. We bought my dad one 2 years ago and he has been very happy with it.

It doesn't seem to be mentioned much in the forums - any reason?

I want to upload the data to a web site - can this be done?

thanks