On Dec 27, 9:09*pm, Ian Sutherland
wrote:
Surfer! wrote:
Thanks to the folks who helped over what station to get. *It's now setup
(though will never give decent wind readings due to the limitations of
my back garden) and online:

www.muchty-weather.org.uk

Now I'm thinking about a low-spec, low-power PC dedicated 24x7 to it...


You might think about running it from a Linux router or NAS box ... much
lower power consumption than dedicated PC. *I have mine connected up to an
old Linksys NSLU2 (obselete now, but still doing a great job).

Would have to buy said router or NAS box... I'm also not sure how
that would deal with getting information from the weather station and
periodically turning it into web pages and uploading them.

However I do it, having it available 24x7 will involve buying
*somthing*! I do have a contact I might be able to get a cheap lappie
from, and someone else has suggested a netbook.

Part of the reason for a dedicated PC is to have switching between GMT
& BST turned off - I want it in Zulu as that's what I'm used to in
aviation weather sites, and it's flying gliders that's the driver for
being interested in weather. However, the next job is amending the
HTML templates the right way - so that installing a new version of
Cumulus won't overwrite the ones I've altered, and since the host has
PHP I could possibly make use of that.