Multiple serial port support

Archive Weather Display Feature Suggestions
1

Supose one connects an oregon scientific WMR928/968(US) on serial com 1
If one waant’s to add own made or other equipment, let say a davis vantage pro
for redundancy & for double checking the values (redundancy) on one machine (pc/laptop)

  • comparable data (when to take which values)
  • support for this

Or suppose one conects own made or simple detection devices

  • cloud sensor with peltier elements …
  • wet leaf detector
  • UV a solar detector
    …

For future machines, just connect a serial=>USB connector, so one can add many serial ports

This would be very interesting since one can spread costs in time & devices so not every
time one have to bring down the system/disconnect to add/test devices
very interesting option, since long time continious data isn’t interupted

2

you can run a completly separate version of wd…separate settings, etc
intall to a new location
and create a file there called 2wd.txt

3

Nice to know that running multiple WD’s next to one another on the same pc won’t cause a conflict, but then te problem stays: if I want to combine all this information into one file so I can upload only one client raw, dailyraw and extraraw to publish everithing on one screen … That would not be possible yet …

I never tought about this way of working … But if this way of working (multiple WD s running on the pc) can data be grouped into a kind of master file if you give the filenames in? I think this will be tough since te times/data could be (and most likely shall be) not exactly te same (some minutes or seconds of differece)

4

Add the seismo unit discussed recently in this category.

It requires it’s own COM port. I suppose one would run it and its software as a separate task

I guess it would be better to keep it that way since seismo displays usually occupy the whole screen with the graphic output.

It would be neat to be able to read seismo output files and plot the data on real time graphs along with other WD data.

Brian A
Henderson, NC

5

Indeed brian,
but since the seismometer is a “non discussed device” and possible to connect, I quoted this as a seperate issue
On the othert hand the seismo device gives other readings, and therefor other ways to present this information.
I thought that for some regions, this could mean a valuable add to the WD program …
I see the WD more broad: as environmental detection …
Whatif one adds CO2 and NOx, SOx, O3 detectors and coupled it on this WD …
imagine the use and possibilities, altoug these parameters don’t influence te weather directly, certainly not aerthquakes
BUT on lmong term CO2, NOx, SOx lead to ozon problems etc
… It’s just an idea …

Here the issue is more general, is suppose you have an Oregon Scientific but want to add soil moisture and temp, leaf wetness and use the pluviometer from a davis vantage pro, tahn one would need 2 com ports add a ligtninng detection and you need 3 com ports in total if you want to publis it tha way of course