I looked through the first 28 pages of the feature request lists (lots of requests!) but I did not find this.
I have weather stations in remote locations that I’d like to use with Weather Display. The locations are such that a PC cannot go in the location. However, devices like the SitePlayer Telnet (www.siteplayer.com/telnet) work great; these are basically network attached serial ports. Now, these devices have serial port redirector software, but my experience with such redirector software is that they are flaky at best.
So, what I’d love to see is another ‘COM port’ selection that would be labeled ‘Network Serial Port’ and allow me to enter an IP address and a TCP port (telnet protocol) and have Weather Display connect to that (each time it wants to get data).
In my case, the connections are up to 3,000 feet in length over singlemode fiber ethernet; serial is not an option.
What brand/model weather stations are you using? If it is Vantage Pro 1 or 2, I have another idea that would be free and available already, although it’s a bit of a contrived solution.
What brand/model weather stations are you using? If it is Vantage Pro 1 or 2, I have another idea that would be free and available already, although it's a bit of a contrived solution.
I have three different units: Peet Bros. Ultimeter 2000, RainWise (forgot exact model number, and it’s half a mile away right now) and a Davis WeatherMonitor II (mounted 25 feet up a pole on the end of a fiber RS-232 connection, solar powered, anemometer at 33 feet, etc). I also have a Boltek StormTracker and the Aninoquisi software on another computer (separate interfacing job there).
Weather Display will let me standardize my outputs; the Davis WeatherLink, the Peet Bros software, and the Weather32 that came with the RainWise all have different formats, etc. I’ll be purchasing three licenses once I get it working through the Siteplayer telnet boxes.
I’ve tested a Comtrol ethernet/serial device http://www.comtrol.com/products/specs/specs.asp?product=99011-6 and a Davis VP. Once I had fought my way through the documentation and finally gotten it re-configured with an IP compatible with my network it worked very well and reliably.