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Newby Question: Local Weather Station State Of The Art
Hello Dean Davis… you live!
Thank you for the explanation as for some reason, over the years, I thought you were Davis Instruments. Typical newby, ain't I. :-)
With regard to my weather station interest, I am presently discouraged. Not because of getting the screen on my A/V distribution system and then onto my TVs, as that has been resolved.
To do this for me, I connect the output of my Mac Mini (Also running XTension) to an AVI to analog converter, and put a electronic converter to feed an existing 4 input Aton A/V distribution system. The extra electronic switch will toggle between my 12 CCTV cameras or the weather from the Mini's screen.
This would allow me to use several different weather programs, but I've discovered a much worse problem that I don't believe I can resolve.
I'm speaking of a logical and accessible location outside our home to put a wireless weather station.
We own the center section of a triplex that has steep roofs. Installing and maintaining a weather station on a mast that is 10' higher than anything around it just seems impossible to me.
I can't find very complete installation instructions on the Davis site, but was also considering one of the two WeatherHawk systems where considerably more installation info is available. That's where I got this 10' rule. But that's not the worst. The worst is that it seems that all these systems need periodic maintenance, and I have no business climbing to the top of my roof ridge to do this.
I will send you some pix directly to show you what I have to play with just in the event that I am over blowing this problem, but as it appears, I really don't have a decent place to put the weather station that I can safely maintain it when necessary, and still expect accurate readings.
I hope you will offer some encouragement to my dilemma.
Thanks, and best wishes,
George Handley
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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:00:13 -0400
From: Dean Davis <afterten-AT-gmail.com">afterten-AT-gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Newby Question: Local Weather Station State Of The Art
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Hi George,
First to clear one thing up, while my name is Dean Davis and I do
author WeatherTracker I'm in no way directly affiliated with the
"Davis Instruments" company.
Davis Instruments publicly publishes the specification for their
weather stations and my software uses those specs. It is just a
coincidence that my last name is the same as the company that makes
the hardware.
That being said your order is a tall one.
The question is not just how to get weather information from your
station into your TV but it could be simplified to how to get ANY data
from your computer to display on a TV.
Now if your TV is one of those new fangled ones that can display a web
page then you are in luck since you can easily bring up a web page
with your weather data on it. But if it is not then I'm at a loss.
There would be ways to do this potentially with a computer that has
RCA video out and a channel modulator but this would preclude you from
using a cable box (Comcast, DISH, DirectTV, etc) on the TVs you want
to see this data on.
To tell you the truth computer/TV integration has a long way to go.
Dean Davis
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:00:13 -0400
From: Dean Davis <afterten-AT-gmail.com">afterten-AT-gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Newby Question: Local Weather Station State Of The Art
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Hi George,
First to clear one thing up, while my name is Dean Davis and I do
author WeatherTracker I'm in no way directly affiliated with the
"Davis Instruments" company.
Davis Instruments publicly publishes the specification for their
weather stations and my software uses those specs. It is just a
coincidence that my last name is the same as the company that makes
the hardware.
That being said your order is a tall one.
The question is not just how to get weather information from your
station into your TV but it could be simplified to how to get ANY data
from your computer to display on a TV.
Now if your TV is one of those new fangled ones that can display a web
page then you are in luck since you can easily bring up a web page
with your weather data on it. But if it is not then I'm at a loss.
There would be ways to do this potentially with a computer that has
RCA video out and a channel modulator but this would preclude you from
using a cable box (Comcast, DISH, DirectTV, etc) on the TVs you want
to see this data on.
To tell you the truth computer/TV integration has a long way to go.
Dean Davis
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