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Ringtail
Asked: 2012-02-23 13:32:08 +0800 CST

What Weather Monitor (weather station) software is available?

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Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10

Need a application and or recommendation for a monitoring system. It will be set up locally and used to record essential data, reports to channels such as: The Weather Channel - Weather Underground - AccuWeather etc.

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  1. Best Answer

    Here are a few options that might be of use/interest:

    At least a couple have Ubuntu packages available from their site, and most support some sort of export in format suitable for WeatherUnderground or CWOP.

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  2. There is one more program for Ubuntu. That is Weather Display.

    Download Weather display Then you can install it with

    tar -xvf WeatherD.tar.gz
cd WeatherD
chmod +x GoWeather.sh
./GoWeather.sh

    Note: to you have proper installation you have to install these packages

      sudo apt-get install libgtk1.2 libgdk-pixbuf2

    Few other good programs are there which are available in software centre too.

    1.AWeather.

    2.Stormcloud(Commercial product of $3:00).

    you can have them by filling the search field with their names.Hope that helps.

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  3. For robust/reliable result, you need data acquisition solution.

    Do a Google search with that term and you will find some result. Many of them will provide free SDK/Library, you just need to buy the hardware. This is one with temperature equipment.(OK, I am lazy here, that is the 1st one come up on the search :P)

    There are also free Linux data acquisition library/SDK, but you will have to check what hardware they are supporting. Comedi is one of them.

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