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FAO: Adrian Shaw
I've tried to email using the address on your webpage but the mail is
being bounced? -- Gareth |
FAO: Adrian Shaw
I'm stll having email problems.
Maybe I can ask the question here... Hi Adrian I've been browsing your website and the Weather Station page intrigued me. As I understand it you use a Lacrosse WS-3600? Do you know the differences between the WS-3600 and the WS-2300? There's very little between them price wise so any input would be helpful. Secondly do you know of any graphing/reporting/publishing software that would work on a PowerBook running OS X? Thanks for any help you can give. -- Gareth |
FAO: Adrian Shaw
Felly sgrifennodd Gareth Slee :
I'm stll having email problems. Oh dear - sorry I can't explain it. Email postmaster at my domain if you still can't get through. Maybe I can ask the question here... Hi Adrian I've been browsing your website and the Weather Station page intrigued me. As I understand it you use a Lacrosse WS-3600? Do you know the differences between the WS-3600 and the WS-2300? There's very little between them price wise so any input would be helpful. Secondly do you know of any graphing/reporting/publishing software that would work on a PowerBook running OS X? Thanks for any help you can give. Well, the WS-3600 is pretty cheap, and it does a pretty good job. Accuracy is questionable, particularly regarding wind speed. But I think the rain gauge and temperature are fairly accurate. Obviously, the wind direction is as accurate as my positioning of the gauge. The WS-3600 is newer than the WS-2300. The base unit is a touch-screen interface, whereas the WS-2300 has buttons on it. Otherwise I don't know the difference either. They use different protocols for data transfer to the PC, though. LaCrosse only produce MS Windows software. Open3600 / Open2300 works on Linux, and I believe Windows too. It would quite likely compile for Mac OS X. You need a serial port though; do macs still have those? You could try to compile it anyway, and if it seems to compile, it will probably work with a weather station attached. Open3600 has some basic graphing stuff in it I think. But I wrote my own. It's not really in a state to give it away, and besides it requires other software to be installed as well (such as gnuplot, perl, and a few other things, as well as the open3600 program to get the data in the first place). But if you're a bit of a programmer, I'd gladly send you my plot program (written in Bash, requires gnuplot). There is just one thing I need to use the LaCrosse MS Windows software for: to change the interval for logging. I can't remember what the factory default is, but I normally log every 10 minutes. Thus it will store up to 12 days (1796 data points) of data in the base unit. But if I go away on holiday for longer than 12 days, I need to set it to a longer period so as to keep a complete record. You can only do this with the software; there's no way to do this using the base station alone. I think there are one or two other things you can only set using the Windows software, but I never use them so I can't remember! Adrian -- Adrian Shaw ais@ Adran Cyfrifiadureg, Prifysgol Cymru, aber. Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru ac. http://users.aber.ac.uk/ais/weather/ uk |
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