Probyte weather station?

[illi]

Hello, my first post here...

I have a old Probyte W2001 weather station and I'm wondering if it would be possible to make it working with Cumulus?

I have no idea of the components used on that WS, but it was manufactured by Probyte company in Finland. They do not support that old but this particular being unused WS anymore.

It has wind speed, direction, temperature and "light" sensors.

It uses serial port connection and produces report once in every second like this:

"$wr,w=003.6,d=es,t=+021.5,l=00024,h=0,p=00017"

Where w= wind speed in m/s, d = wind direction (N, NW, W, SW, S, ES, E and NE), t = temperature °C, l = "light" in Lux. H and P values seem not to be in use.

Any ideas if I would be able to get it working with Cumulus? Either as acting as any existing supported device, or as new supported device. In the Wiki you mention "However, if the protocol is available somewhere, and you are prepared to do all of the testing (it will be frustrating, hard work), I may consider adding support for your weather station". Luckily I have the protocol available right out of the station

Thanks,
Ilkka

[steve]

I could consider adding support for it one day - it would be low priority, though. In the meantime, you could perhaps write something to read the data and write it in the easyweather.dat format so that Cumulus could read it.

[illi]

Steve, that easyweather.dat sounds like good idea.

Any chance that you have any existing script that does the same thing for maybe some other stations that I could use as an example of what I need to do?

I'm not much of a programmer, but if I get sample I'm sure I can modify it for this particular use.

Also maybe sample easyweather.dat file to see how it looks in real life?

Ilkka

[steve]

Any chance that you have any existing script that does the same thing for maybe some other stations that I could use as an example of what I need to do?

I'm not aware of anyone else who has attempted this - it was just a thought that occurred to me.

Also maybe sample easyweather.dat file to see how it looks in real life?

Example attached. You'll have to put in some sort of sensible default values for the items that your station doesn't provide. There's no provision for 'light', so basically all you can put in are temperature and wind speed and direction. Hardly seems worth it, really