WS500Reloaded

WS500Reloaded

preliminary

This project will base upon an existing but no more supported project ws500 published by django in wetterstationenform.de and django's wiki.

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.

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

Further information

• ws300 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: Dataformat WS300
• awekas data feed format or as copy: Awekas feed specification