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Paul Branch
Oct 4, 2022, 11:01:47 AM10/4/22
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I am trying to set up my sainlogic WIFI ws0310 up for sending to NOAA. I have a raspberry pi, Ubuntu and Windows computers for any middle ware. I do Have a RTL-SDR and i also have Technical ham License and PI-Star. I am just beginning Ham Radio DMR so i'm am very unfamiliar with it and do not really know anything about using APRIS. Ita is a hand held so it would not be useful probably for weather a station. i do have Echolink and a Winlink account so if i route using those I could do that. what is the easiest way to set up what i have to send to NOAA.
Paul
KI5LSS
Paul
KI5LSS
googl...@tedlum.com
Oct 4, 2022, 11:40:28 AM10/4/22
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Paul:
Unfortunately, the easiest way would be to purchase a more supported weather station, like a Davis station. While sainlogic appears to have "an app" for sending data to Wunderground I'm not currently aware of any CWOP/APRS software that handles that particular station, but I've not done exhaustive research. CWOP, having it's roots in the Ham radio community, utilizes the APRS protocol to transmit weather data using the APRS message format for weather data. So, you must have a software, either built in or external, which takes the raw weather data from the station and output's it in the APRS message format. If there is no commercial/open source option available for the station, and the vendor does not support it intrinsically, then your only other option would be to write your own. You may also find other ws0310 owners who have already written their own... but haven't necessarily advertised it or made it widely available.
Once you have the data in APRS format you can start to think about whether you plan to send the data entirely over the terrestrial Internet to one of the public APRS-IS servers, over the terrestrial Internet to one of the private APRS-IS servers, over RF, or some mixture of the latter two.
Unfortunately, the easiest way would be to purchase a more supported weather station, like a Davis station. While sainlogic appears to have "an app" for sending data to Wunderground I'm not currently aware of any CWOP/APRS software that handles that particular station, but I've not done exhaustive research. CWOP, having it's roots in the Ham radio community, utilizes the APRS protocol to transmit weather data using the APRS message format for weather data. So, you must have a software, either built in or external, which takes the raw weather data from the station and output's it in the APRS message format. If there is no commercial/open source option available for the station, and the vendor does not support it intrinsically, then your only other option would be to write your own. You may also find other ws0310 owners who have already written their own... but haven't necessarily advertised it or made it widely available.
Once you have the data in APRS format you can start to think about whether you plan to send the data entirely over the terrestrial Internet to one of the public APRS-IS servers, over the terrestrial Internet to one of the private APRS-IS servers, over RF, or some mixture of the latter two.
googl...@tedlum.com
Oct 4, 2022, 12:17:58 PM10/4/22
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Paul:
This Blog post details another owners experience in reverse engineering a sainlogic station. Keep in mind, sainlogic does not manufacture these stations so different sainlogic models may have been manufactured by completely different companies and have completely different architectures. Given that this owner had to reverse engineer the signals and hardware it does not appear these stations offer an open, documented, API to access data so you would probably need to do something similar. That's only something I'd recommend to someone with an electrical engineering background and a hunger for the learning experience. Absent that, you'd be better off with more common, open and better supported hardware.
https://www.robopenguins.com/weather-station/
This Blog post details another owners experience in reverse engineering a sainlogic station. Keep in mind, sainlogic does not manufacture these stations so different sainlogic models may have been manufactured by completely different companies and have completely different architectures. Given that this owner had to reverse engineer the signals and hardware it does not appear these stations offer an open, documented, API to access data so you would probably need to do something similar. That's only something I'd recommend to someone with an electrical engineering background and a hunger for the learning experience. Absent that, you'd be better off with more common, open and better supported hardware.
https://www.robopenguins.com/weather-station/
On Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 11:01:47 AM UTC-4 ki5ls...@gmail.com wrote:
rich...@taftphoto.com
Oct 4, 2022, 12:57:48 PM10/4/22
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I keep getting notifications from FindU that my data has been missing for X number of days. However, when I open my findU page, I see that the data is current by a few minutes (http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=CW3815). I do see that there seems to be some issues with the “Quality pages” showing an internal error. Just wondering if is an issue with others.
Rich
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