What Weather Monitor (weather station) software is available?

Question

Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10

Need a application and or recommendation for a monitoring system. It will be set up locally and used to record essential data, reports to channels such as: The Weather Channel - Weather Underground - AccuWeather etc.

Answer 1

Here are a few options that might be of use/interest:

• weeWX
• wvview
• MeteoStationNM
• Weather Station Datalogger

At least a couple have Ubuntu packages available from their site, and most support some sort of export in format suitable for WeatherUnderground or CWOP.

Answer 2

There is one more program for Ubuntu. That is Weather Display.

Download Weather display Then you can install it with

tar -xvf WeatherD.tar.gz
cd WeatherD
chmod +x GoWeather.sh
./GoWeather.sh

Note: to you have proper installation you have to install these packages

  sudo apt-get install libgtk1.2 libgdk-pixbuf2

Few other good programs are there which are available in software centre too.

1.AWeather.

2.Stormcloud(Commercial product of $3:00).

you can have them by filling the search field with their names.Hope that helps.

Answer 3

For robust/reliable result, you need data acquisition solution.

Do a Google search with that term and you will find some result. Many of them will provide free SDK/Library, you just need to buy the hardware. This is one with temperature equipment.(OK, I am lazy here, that is the 1st one come up on the search :P)

There are also free Linux data acquisition library/SDK, but you will have to check what hardware they are supporting. Comedi is one of them.