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The Earlham College Weather Station initiative is to provide data as a reference to be used against the energy usage of the campus. This information is useful in many situations including future development of the EC Comprehensive Sustainability Plan and the Energy Wars competitions. The weather station initiative here at Earlham College uses a Davis Vantage Pro 2 Plus system. This system is designed to collect readings of temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and UV radiation (among others) and transport that data to the display monitor via cable. The cabled version was chosen for its stability and reliability, The weather station is on the north end of campus on the roof of Dennis Hall.The weather station was constructed in the summer of 2014.
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HIP uses a weather station to provide data as a reference to be used against the energy usage of the campus. This information is useful in many situations including future development of the EC Comprehensive Sustainability Plan and the Energy Wars competitions.
  
All of the information generated by the weather station is sent to a display monitor located in the CS batcave on the fourth floor of Dennis Hall. The display monitor shows the current readings from the station and sends the information to our machine new-proto using an ethernet cable. We utilize the WeeWX program to move the information from the display monitor to the PostgreSQL database on  out new-proto machine.
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We use a Davis Vantage Pro 2 Plus weather station system, installed spring 2014. It monitors temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and UV radiation (among others) and transports that data to a console and ultimately to our computer. The cabled version was chosen for its stability and reliability. The weather station is on the north end of campus on the roof of Dennis Hall.
  
The data that is generated by the weather station ends up in a PostgreSQL database on our dedicated computer science machine new-proto.cs.earlham.edu. This database is a holding space to store and access our data. It will serve as the source of information for a webpage that will display the data. This webpage is intended to be a portal to connect the students on campus with the direct results of computer science at work.
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== Data Path ==
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To be updated. Current as of 2015-05.
  
All documents are courtesy of Davis Instruments.
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All of the information generated by the weather station is sent to a console located in the CS batcave on the fourth floor of Dennis Hall. A display on the console shows the live readings from the station and sends data to new-proto. WeeWX then moves that data from the automatic database to our PostgreSQL database.
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tl;dr:
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* weather station -> console -> new-proto:/var/lib/weewx.sdb -> weather (postgreSQL) on new-proto
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All via Ethernet cables.
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Eventually a webpage/app.
  
 
== PDF Documents ==
 
== PDF Documents ==
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All documents by Davis Instruments.
  
 
[http://davisnet.com/product_documents/weather/manuals/07395-234_IM_06312.pdf console]
 
[http://davisnet.com/product_documents/weather/manuals/07395-234_IM_06312.pdf console]

Revision as of 12:13, 14 May 2015

HIP uses a weather station to provide data as a reference to be used against the energy usage of the campus. This information is useful in many situations including future development of the EC Comprehensive Sustainability Plan and the Energy Wars competitions.

We use a Davis Vantage Pro 2 Plus weather station system, installed spring 2014. It monitors temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and UV radiation (among others) and transports that data to a console and ultimately to our computer. The cabled version was chosen for its stability and reliability. The weather station is on the north end of campus on the roof of Dennis Hall.

Data Path

To be updated. Current as of 2015-05.

All of the information generated by the weather station is sent to a console located in the CS batcave on the fourth floor of Dennis Hall. A display on the console shows the live readings from the station and sends data to new-proto. WeeWX then moves that data from the automatic database to our PostgreSQL database.

tl;dr:

  • weather station -> console -> new-proto:/var/lib/weewx.sdb -> weather (postgreSQL) on new-proto

All via Ethernet cables.

Eventually a webpage/app.

PDF Documents

All documents by Davis Instruments.

console

hardware configuration using ISS (Integrated Sensor Suite)

specs

WeatherLink (Data Logger, USB version - ignore Windows software descriptions)

Source Links

Cabled Vantage Pro2 Plus with Standard Radiation Shield

index for manufacturer documentation

Use the following command to find the weewx daemon:

  • find / -name "*weewx*" | grep weewxd