[zecrich]

Hi all,
I have been running a Fine offset (Maplin Wh1081) for a couple of years uploading to weather underground and twitter, I have been frequently frustrated with loss of signal between the units and then I saw this mentioned on the Sandaysoft forum.

Is it possible to include a rain sensor, my wife often moans that she doesn't care how much rain but when it rains because of her washing, so can I include a rain sensor with audible alarm?

[uncle_bob]

Hi all,
I have been running a Fine offset (Maplin Wh1081) for a couple of years uploading to weather underground and twitter, I have been frequently frustrated with loss of signal between the units and then I saw this mentioned on the Sandaysoft forum.

Was that my post?

Is it possible to include a rain sensor, my wife often moans that she doesn't care how much rain but when it rains because of her washing, so can I include a rain sensor with audible alarm?

This currently isn't included in the code, but hey you never know what may pop up in the future.

That said making a rain alarm as a separate board would be fairly easy.
Here's a site showing a circuit that is as basic as it can get:
http://circuiteasy.com/rain-alarm/

Welcome to the world of the WeatherDuino by the way.

[zecrich]

Thanks for the reply Uncle Bob, I have had a good read of the forum this morning and it may be slightly above my skills.
I am new to Arduino and so I might spend some time getting used to whats what, I have good (ish) soldering skills and have a decen soldering iron with digital control and I previously worked repairing medical and industrial endoscopes.

However after knee surgery I have been left in chronic pain and my pain meds render my brain useless a lot of the time and so I need extra time to figure it all out as there isn't a stage by stag, start to finish how to, but I will tackle it at some stage because this fine offset base station is not that good.