About our setup

We are using a Davis Instruments Vantage Pro ISS (Integrated Sensor Suite). It's currently situated on the roof of the Clubhouse (the former location out on the flagpole didn't work well because of reliability issues with Davis' previous-generation 900MHz-technology wireless technology). From there, the telemetry goes to the display inside the House. The display is equipped with Davis' (great karma on the name, eh?) datalogger expansion module with a USB interface. That feeds a PC running WeatherLink 5.7 software (using a couple of active repeater powered USB extension cables due to distance).

WeatherLink processes the captured data every 5 minutes and uploads the most current and short-hour data to our web site, using our in-house WiFi network. Connectivity from our facility to the 'Net is also wireless, using Motorola radio technology to provision a 512KB pipe. Longer-interval graphs, such as weekly, monthly and annual are processed once a day and uploaded overnight. CWOP and Weather Underground are updated every 5 minutes.

For more information, to make a suggestion, or to report a problem, please contact Paul Leonard by email.

Currently, enhancement plans include:

• WAP phone access
• Change general appearance of pages to more closely resemble remainder of www.diyc.org.
• Integrate data back to main site (probably Location page)

Credits: DIYC members have contributed significant time, energy and financial resources to this project...

The Idea... Ed Ruark
The Hardware... Paul Leonard and Ed Ruark
The Software... Mark Dufeny
Hardware Monkey... Ed Ruark
Software Monkey and Cable Boy... Paul Leonard
Best Roofer... Patrick Crump
The Host... Kevin Fouche

Update 27 April 2008