weather info (was Re: just thought of a new gui port!)

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote:

> It looks like Oregon Scientific has some cool weather station models with
> USB connectivity, might work well with a FreeBSD system...
>
> wunderground is definitely a great site however at least in my location the
> temperature can be off as much as ten degrees, its almost like they are
> reading from a station on top of the mountain, and I.m in the valley. Its
> an issue of being on the coast I suppose, for example it could be 80
> degrees inland but a ten mile drive and your down to 50 degrees.

Some of that may be due to the installation.  In the sun, on the 
sheltered side of a building, that sort of thing.

I found some code to use an Arduino as a USB wireless receiver for 
inexpensive temperature/humidity sensors like the Meade TS34C.  It 
requires some modification to a common wireless module.  So far, I have 
not got it working.

http://jeelabs.net/projects/cafe/wiki/Receiving_OOKASK_with_a_modified_RFM12B
http://forum.jeelabs.net/node/309
https://bitbucket.org/fuzzillogic/433mhzforarduino/src/7fadcc1199ad/RemoteSensor%20library/RemoteSensor/SensorReceiver.h