[Nigel]

Steve,

Hum just got a goat called Steve...

Mine was the W1080 from PCE well it was kind of difficult to tell.  For lock down it didn't work most of the time and I had moved the TX close to the house disconnected from the wind / rain sensors...  I used to have it connected to a windoz XP machine in the loft (and the caravan we lived in for 3.5 years prior to that), so not to worried about glancing at the values.  This used to serve to a website that a prio ISP kindly left running for me after I left them (that has now stopped).  That old machine died.  I then started my Pi journey with a Banana Pi (not great) then quickly to a Pi Zero W (excellent).  I used to use Cumulus but don't get on with the MX version and now have moved to weewx (though I see that the Davis protocol can cause issues).  I have the little pi running: weewx, Apache to serve the pages, Mosquitto MQTT, and a sense hat...  I have a number of plans but hey I need to get the weather stn up first...  There are a load of other things in life such as broken cars, livestock fences and digging in the garden that pull on any free time.  I see a number of potentially Lancastrian sites I don't know if one of those is yours.

As to glancing over at the temp...  Surely that is a little bit of personalisation in the Arduino code?  Not having it running yet I currently believe that when not prodded with the stylus the TFT is in big clock mode...  Could that be big temp mode for you?

Stay safe

Nigel


 

Thanks Nigel,

I am glad to share my ideas

I had my fine offset station, an Aercus WS2083, for five years and in that time I've had to change the bearing in the wind speed sensor, a reed switch in the wind direction and the reed switch in the rain collector!
I don't know if your FO station is connected to a pc of some kind but mine has been connected to various types over the years, a windows mini pc, a raspberry pi4, a pi Zero and now a Zero 2. Since moving over to WeatherDuino I have not had any lock ups of the pi which I was getting frequently with the fine offset station I was also getting quite a few 'unable to connect to web page' errors when trying to connect to the Cumulus MX dashboard - all those problems have disappeared too.

The only thing I miss from the Aercus display is the ability to just glance from across the room to see the outside temperature, now I need to put my glasses on ! Maybe something Werk can play with making the temp display bigger when on the 'Big Clock' page.

Thanks, Steve

Hi SR123,

I've really enjoyed reading about your Stn.  It's given me some ideas.  I do like what you have done with your RX been thinking about what to do with my own.  Looks like some bits of roofing batten (38 x 50 mm) might come in useful...  Though I have been thinking of something else.  I was intrigued by the strainer that you mounted your T/H sensor in.  I too have been using a FO system for a number of years and having replaced a number of parts / whole lot have decided to abandon FO.  When I inspected the TX over winter break it was badly corroded and I do what to protect the sensor more than in the FO set up.  I have retained the radiation screen and have been thinking of ways to use this with additional protection for the little PCBs.  I have some "conformal coating" to put on the PCBs (except the sensors that is).  I might emulate your strainer screen though I have been thinking about a tube inside the radiation screen...

I've gone for a bought antena both TX and RX and will keep the TX one in the IP enclosure so as to minimise holes in the enclosure (though conversely I plan to have the indicator LEDs visible in the side of the enclosure!!!).

I've not have the solar data before so am only just giving it some thought.  As Werk is saying fused silica is the best for UV transmission it is used in UV reactors for disinfection of water.  Despite being surrounded by United Utilities and Yorkshire Water reservoirs my house is on a private water supply!

Stay safe

Nigel