RE: RE: Weather Station Bargain

["i.bird@xxxxxxx" <Ian@xxxxxxx>]

I now have an officially slightly less flexible friend. I also hope to use
this to tune both my heating and irrigation systems in the near future. If
anyone writes any software etc. that can extract the rainfall into
something useable by HV then I am sure there are going to be a few of us
that would like to see it.

As for me - well, back to RS232 to 485 interfaces and the relay board with
its super dooper new relays and nappies.

Ian B

Original Message:
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From: Kenneth Watt kennwatt@xxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:14:33 +0100
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Weather Station Bargain


> Out of curiosity, what do you guys do with all this information
you
> can log?
> 
> I admit to a fascination with it all myself, but I'm not entirely
sure
> what my ultimate goal here is!

My goal is to get weather info, 'cause I'm a sad git probably, but more
than that if I can get the info from a weather station and into HV then
I can make the heating control system more accurate than it is. At the
moment I can only read the outside air temp and three inside temps so
having wind info etc allows me more flexibility and more accurate
heating control.

If you used your chosen flavour of HA device/software to control the
likes of Ian B's irrigation system, for example, you could tell the HA
system that it was raining or whatever gardeners do and not to bring on
the water under certain conditions. If the wind chill was really making
it feel like Alaska outside then you can ask the HA system to raise the
internal temp a notch if you see where I'm going here.

K.



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