USB Touchscreen Wireless Weather Forecaster

[Nicholas Humfrey]

Sorry if you have already seen this, but the USB Touchscreen Wireless Weather Forecaster is on special offer from Maplin again for £50.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/usb-touchscreen-wireless-weather-forecaster-228825

I have been looking at building my own wired weather station and realised that the individual components (especially Wind speed and direction and rain) are so expensive, that it would be cheaper just to buy this and use the components.


nick.

[Paul Tanner]

Hey Nick,

Agree that the sensor part of this could be worth
having. But will you be up against another
proprietary protocol that takes a lot of time to learn how to decode?

Paul

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[Nicholas Humfrey]

Hi Paul,

I don't know the details of the sensors but I expect the wind speed and rainfall sensors to contain reed switches and the wind direction to be a variable resistor.

I am guessing that it is unlikely to be any electronics in the sensors themselves.

I don't know if anyone had reverse engineered the wireless signals for this model. Or the USB for the matter.


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[Nicholas O'Leary]

> I don't know if anyone had reverse engineered the wireless signals for this model. Or the USB for the matter.

There are some python scripts for accessing the data over USB -
http://www.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/weather/ and
http://code.google.com/p/pywws/

Cheers,
Nick