Yea, I’m a geek. So, whilest Lisa has her dog competitions and horsie stuff going on, I have my geek stuff. Already got enough computers in the house (for now – will be moving to Macs over the coming year+), but I’m into weather stuff. So, after doing a bunch of research on weather station hardware/software, I settled on a Davis Instruments Vantage Pro2 – wireless, solar powered. I love eBay, since I found a decent deal on it there, as well as the optional software. There are other software packages to manage/query the station, but I got a decent deal on the Davis WeatherLink stuff, that I’ll start with that. I’ve been sorta busy lately, so the boxes were sitting in the home office for that past several weeks. Determined not to have “yet another unopened, undeployed toy” kicking around, I mustered the energy over the weekend to set it up and start playing with it. Its not installed in its optimal/final location (since my shoulder is still healing after surgery and I can’t dig the hole/mix concrete for the mounting post), but I did manage to rig it up on a pole that was being used to brace a now dead sapling tree.
Here’s a couple stock pics of the station (the real pics coming soon – Lisa took the camera to work today and its got the pics on it):


I did a first cut at the web page for the weather data (from the stock template that came with the WeatherLink software). Once I get more time, I’ll tweak it more.
Ultimately, I’ll get more sensors, so we can monitor the temp in the barn and the attic and automate ventilation fans, etc.
Weather – yea, its a geek thing…