Re: Home Weather Measurement - Need Options

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

"Richard S. Smith" <rss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi Everyone,
>
>I have my house set up with X10 for lighting / motion sensing /
>heating control.  The next thing I want to do is integrate basic
>weather data like outside temperature (averaged over at least two
>external sensors), and then move on to humidity and more advanced
>stuff like rainfall and wind measurement.
>
>Rather than trying to integrate this into my X10 system (which I don't
>think is possible), what I want is a simple weather station that I can
>interface to my PC.  I run Linux, and what I really want is something
>I can program myself.  In other words I'm looking for a device that's
>easy to interface with (uses a simple serial protocol), and is "open"
>in publishing it's interface / API.
>
>A basic web search points to the stuff made by Oregon Scientific and
>Lacrosse, which is pretty useless for my purposes.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help on this.

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