Details about the Lamy, New Mexico House Weather System
A solar powered Davis Instruments
weather station on our home roof
uses wireless transmission to send real-time current weather information to a small display unit in my
home office.
The display unit replicates the weather information in real-time to a Dell 4400 Dimension computer running the XP
standard operating system.
A $250 software program called Weather View 32 Professional runs continuously displaying
current weather information.
At user determined intervals (in this case every 5 minutes) the software "snaps" the
weather information and automatically FTPs the current weather information to my web host where a web page displays the information along with a graph. Every 5 minutes it also
FTPs weather information to the Weather Underground web site where it maintains historical
records from volunteer weather stations.
The camera is a Panasonic Network Outdoor Camera Model BB-HCM331A. It provides color real-time images at about 15 frames a second and is accessed via it's internet protocol address. It worked best with an IP "translator" viewnetcam.
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