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We have always been interested in whats going on with the weather.
So we have a weather station at home and can read it from anywhere on the
www.
I liked the www ability, when we traveled, we could always see what was
going on at home.






Over the years I have had four different types of weather station.
1 I had an Oregon Scientific from Radio Shack, for 5 or 6 years.
	
Serial iface, worked OK.
2 Davis Vantage Pro -2 which ran for 9 or 10 years.
	
Serial iface worked OK, but was hard to make connect, and it kept 
	crapping out.
3 Ambient 2080 which I kept for a little over 1 year.
	
USB interface which took a little time to develop but I made it work.

I didn't like the Ambient, it was hard to keep it working especially the

wind and rain gauges (I had separated the wind/rain gages from the main
unit). 

It was difficult to keep up with the daily rain accumulation since since it

didn't reset it at midnight. 
4 a 2nd Davis Vantage Pro-2.
	
 I bought the second Vantage Pro with a USB interface, but they used a

manufacturers special type (bridge to a USART) which Linux drivers don't

support, so I replaced the USB iface with a serial interface.


Over the years I have had four different types of weather station.
1	I had an Oregon Scientific from Radio Shack, for 5 or 6 years. Serial iface, worked OK.
2	Davis Vantage Pro -2 which ran for 9 or 10 years. Serial iface worked OK, but was hard to make connect, and it kept crapping out.
3	Ambient 2080 which I kept for a little over 1 year. USB interface which took a little time to develop but I made it work. I didn't like the Ambient, it was hard to keep it working especially the wind and rain gauges (I had separated the wind/rain gages from the main unit). It was difficult to keep up with the daily rain accumulation since since it didn't reset it at midnight.
4	a 2nd Davis Vantage Pro-2. I bought the second Vantage Pro with a USB interface, but they used a manufacturers special type (bridge to a USART) which Linux drivers don't support, so I replaced the USB iface with a serial interface.

The 2nd Davis Vantage Pro took a little more effort to interface it's serial
interface.
By the time I bought the 2nd Davis, most PCs no longer had serial interfaces
to the exterior and their on-board COM1 ports weren't well documented.
Davis had improved their interface software 
I bought a SENA LS100 network to serial interface, this was relatively
easy to make work. 
If I had to do this today, I would use an Rpi-3, like in the work shop Env
server.

After finishing the 6" dust collecter automation, I decided it would be
nice to be able to see the shop's temp/humidity on the web.
So I set up the ShopGwy (Rpi-3) with an Adruino Nano and a couple of
temp/humidity sensors. 
Since the ShopGwy is visible anywhere on our home network, I added the
readigs to my weather page.

The Davis Vantage Pro2 weather console in our den.

Upper view of the computer console in my office. Note: on the 2nd shelf is the 16 port 1Gb switch #1 and to it's right is the SENA LS100 ethernet to RS232 interface. The RS232 runs through the walls (on a cat5) to the weather console in the den.

Closer look at WxIfc (ethernet to RS232 interface).

The round layered temp/humidity sensors on the wall, on our patio.

Closer look at the temp/humidity sensor on the patio. Is dirty, been up here for about 16 years.

Wind and rain sensors on the roof.