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Weather display or VWS

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:18 pm
by phoenixb
Hi,

I am currently planning to buy a Davis Vantage Vue, but I have the following issue.
I whant to use a software program for as interface between the Davis and HS with VWS or Weather Display, but I can not really choice with one i must to take.

So who have experience with one of these software products and what experiences have you so i can made Decision

I like to hear it.

Grtz,

Re: Weather display or VWS

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:07 am
by drmacchi
I use VWS (virtual weather station ) because license was included in my Oregon weather station. It has many features : ftp , website creation tool ..... and i like the alarm feature with many many parameters. see image. ciao, lorenzo
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Re: Weather display or VWS

Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 8:34 pm
by phoenixb
Have you some website online with this data so i can watch how its look.

And how you connect this data to HS?

Re: Weather display or VWS

Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:41 pm
by Bwired
I think Virtual weather station has a Homeseer plugin available.
Check here http://store.homeseer.com/store/Weather ... n-C99.aspx

Re: Weather display or VWS

Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:08 am
by drmacchi
No , not at the moment because i'm changing my HS server with a new Ion2 mainboard.
I will let you know. Bwired is right. I use HS plugin

Re: Weather display or VWS

Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 11:38 pm
by William.abbo
Take a look at http://pe1bmm.dyndns-server.com/VantagePro
I have a VantagePro running with Cumulus software. A few months ago I startde writting a script for this sw with HS, not finished yet. There is also a existing plug-in for this combination at the HS-messageboard.

Re: Weather display or VWS

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:54 pm
by phoenixb
@William.abbo have you some beta for the culumus script? Because i'm using at this moment weatherlink and cumulus.

Re: Weather display or VWS

Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 9:14 pm
by William.abbo
djdive,

Take a look at this http://forums.homeseer.com/showthread.php?p=952531 it looks like a complete solution, I will install and try it this week.

Re: Weather display or VWS

Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 11:35 pm
by William.abbo
This is how my script is looking for the moment. It's not finished at all, but the beginning is here.
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Re: Weather display or VWS

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:20 pm
by phoenixb
Last weekend I have tried to made self a script that is collect data from weatherlink (see screenshot)
Image

It's nice, but not optimal and would like to try your version for cumulus.

PM just sent.