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Additional external sensors

Posted: Wed 22 Oct 2014 7:29 pm
by engolling
Hello,

I'm a new user of Cumulus and I started with a Fine Offset WH3080 because of limited budget.
Since the WH3800 has the temperature sensor to be places close to the other sensors, ich would likte do capture additional sensors.

I started to build some Sensors with 2 calibrated DS1602 thermometers and a 433MHz wireless transmitter and I get the data over RS232 into the computer where cumulus is running.

Is there any possibility to get this data into cumulus? I read some threads in the forum and the FAQs and I unfortunately didn't see any chance.

Thanks for your help.

Stefan

Re: Additional external sensors

Posted: Wed 22 Oct 2014 7:51 pm
by steve
No, not currently, unless you were to create some kind of hardware and/or software interface to emulate a station which is supported by Cumulus which does have extra sensors, e.g. a Davis. Cumulus only supports extra sensors which are available as standard sensors for a particular station.

Re: Additional external sensors

Posted: Fri 24 Oct 2014 4:00 pm
by engolling
Hello Steve,

thank you for your quick reply.

So would it be theoreticaly possible, to tick extra sensors in combination with the selected Fine Offset station and then to emulate protocol of the Davis station to read those sensors?

Re: Additional external sensors

Posted: Fri 24 Oct 2014 4:06 pm
by steve
No, you would have to emulate a Davis station and select that as the station type.