Cumulus Support

I would like to ask if i can make Cumulus work with my custom made weather station.

For your info, i can create any kind of data array (since i can program my microcontroller) at any serial data speed.

So, is there the capability that Cumulus can accept data from a its own simple protocol, or i have to study the protocol of a widely used weather station such as Oregon, Davis etc and create such data?

Thank you in advance!!

You would either have to emulate a station which is already supported, or (not so good) use the 'easyweather.dat' method; see this thread for some information on that: https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4344

So, you are not suggesting to use the 'easyweather.dat' method and instead, to emulate a known weather station.

Please, could you please suggest me what weather station should i choose to emulate, so that it can be easy to do it? I mean, what ws has the easiest data protocol to emulate?
And second question: any reference or link for the protocol documentation?

Thanks again very much!

I can't say which would be easiest, but the only protocol for a station currently supported by Cumulus which is officially documented is the Davis protocol: http://davisnet.com/support/weather/dow ... wareID=219

Thank you very much for your reply (fast and helpful)!

I will do a research on this!

vagyver wrote:I would like to ask if i can make Cumulus work with my custom made weather station.

For your info, i can create any kind of data array (since i can program my microcontroller) at any serial data speed.

So, is there the capability that Cumulus can accept data from a its own simple protocol, or i have to study the protocol of a widely used weather station such as Oregon, Davis etc and create such data?

Thank you in advance!!

I wold recommend you having a look to https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=16 homebuilt section in this forum, maybe can be helpful

I am coming back to this issue and i would like to ask if there is a possibility or a perhaps future plan to:

support a dummy weather station in which tha input data raw can be set by the user e.g by comma-delimited or whatever.
In this case someone with a DIY weather station (like me) can connect to Cumulus by customizing the data format via the serial port. I would be very interested in that.

vagyver wrote:I am coming back to this issue and i would like to ask if there is a possibility or a perhaps future plan to:

support a dummy weather station in which tha input data raw can be set by the user e.g by comma-delimited or whatever.

It is possible that this might happen in the future, yes. But until then only the fixed format of the easyweather.dat file is available.

vagyver wrote:So, you are not suggesting to use the 'easyweather.dat' method and instead, to emulate a known weather station.

Emulate a know weather station is possibly the better way, but the more dificult!
My almost home made weather station is based on Arduino, and I'm using the easyweather.dat method since some months without any major problem.
It's easy to create from a microcontroller an output in easywether.dat format (Steve as recentetly extended the format to even support UV and Solar data, know as easyweatherplus.dat format).
You only need to have on the PC something like the Emita RS232 Data Logger (it's for Windows, but anyway you must use Windows to run Cumulus), to capture the output and put it on a file (easyweather.dat) that Cumulus reads at an interval defined by you (on Cumulus).

Sorry for my poor English.

I will follow your work, if you go for emulating a existing weather station. I don't have the knowledge to do that.

That logger is available at http://www.eltima.com/products/rs232-data-logger/