dev/projects/software/Weather Station ELV WS500/WS500Reloaded 1 WS500Reloaded 1.1 preliminary This project will base upon an existing but no more supported project ws500 published by {link:django|http://www.wetterstationen.info/phpBB/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=3832} in {link:wetterstationenform.de|http://www.wetterstationen.info/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=9036&highlight=ws500} and {link:django's wiki|http://dokuwiki.nausch.org/doku.php?id=ws:ws500}. django started 2006 to develop a perl script for connecting to WS 500 and obtaining the data and save the data in a mysql database. Unfortunately django went for a more professional weather station (the vantage pro) and the work on the ws500 project stopped. Last week (january 2009) i came across his post and went into utilizing my WS 500 to obtain, process and publish the data. django's script is a great work. My experience was that very often the connection aborted and the recovery does not work reliable. At the other hand some features were missing. 1.1 Features / Open Issues - refactoring the existing code -- reordering the code -- reformat comments and add more comprehensive english comments where needed -- read configuration from a unix like configuration file rather than an active perl file - add a more reliable error/recovery handling for connection abbotation - support rrd database -- maybe implement a pluggable interface for further enhancements and customization - support data feed to weather mapping services: -- AWEKAS http://www.awekas.at -- RDF-Support - support extracting current values to a file for enabling following servives -- Windows Vista Desktop Gadget -- Firefox Plugin -- Google iGoogle Gadget - upload current data and historic data to websites etc - provide installation scripts / debian package 1.1 Further information - {link:ws300|http://www.kisdndial.de/ws300/index.html} is a further project in cpp to read ws300pc data. It seems that the protocol of the ws300pc is similar to the one for ws500. So maybe we will able to support a bunch of elv weather stations. I extracted the format description contained within the download package and provide it here: [dev/projects/software/Weather Station ELV WS500/WS500Reloaded/Dataformat WS300] - {link:awekas data feed format|http://www.ipsymcon.de/forum/f7/wetterdaten-awekas-senden-2297/} or as copy: [dev/projects/software/Weather Station ELV WS500/WS500Reloaded/Awekas feed specification] 2009-01-13 16:31:28.812 2009-01-09 13:28:58.886