Re: Lacrosse WS-2300 weather station wiring

["kw1816" <kw1816@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Got it working fine in the end, data coming into Homeseer via
Virtual Weather Station and the VWS plugin - just got to work on the
Mainlobby 3 scenes now :0

I bought it from a German ebay seller - a lot cheaper than the UK
sellers.

Kevin W.


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gale" <groups@...> wrote:
>
> Kevin,
>
> I'm just looking at getting one of these - did you get the wired
sensors working in the end?
>
> Oh, and where did you buy it from?
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> Thanks,
>
> Paul.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
> > kw1816
> > Sent: 13 July 2006 09:56
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Lacrosse WS-2300 weather station wiring
> >
> > I bought one of these weather stations some time ago and finally
got
> > round to having a play with it yesterday. It comes with a base
> > station and outside temperature, Rainfall and wind sensors which
are
> > either wired or wireless.
> >
> > I've had it running fine when connected with the supplied cables
> > which are modem style 4 core RJ11 - RJ11. Great I thought - I'll
> > just plug one end into the patch panel and the sensors into a
handy
> > cat 5 socket in the garage.  The plan was to just use normal RJ45
> > link adaptors and plug the RJ11's into one side. My reasoning was
> > that as long as I did the same each end then electrically it
would
> > be fine. The sensors are going to be too far away for the
wireless
> > RF signal to be reliable.
> >
> > As you might have guessed it didn't work :-(    I can get it to
work
> > with a short CAT 5 patch lead using the same adaptors but not
> > accross the structured wiring. I'm wondering if the CAT 5 twists
are
> > having an effect on the signal. Any ideas ??
> >
> > Thanks
> > Kevin W.
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