Weather Station

[DeadPenguin]

I know I am getting way a head of myself but I stumbled onto this http://smart-home-blog.com/archives/833#comments and was curious if anyone had a weather station connected to LMCE yet.

I have an Oregon Scientific WMR968 with a serial connection that I would love to connect to LMCE.

Regards,
Blair

[ddamron]

That's one of my goals... and also one of the reasons I'm implementing Insteon...

I've got a EZIO8SA.. it's an insteon based IO board.. has 8 relay outputs, 6 digital inputs, 2 analog inputs, and a 1-wire interface...

I have it working with a 1-wire Temperature sensor now.. and have been assured by the manufacturer they intend to expand the 1wire bus to include multiple devices...

barometric, Humidity, Accelleration sensors, etc..

Ultimate goal is to use this information to control my sprinkler system.
(also insteon based)

[DeadPenguin]

Really glad I didn't amass a lot of Z-wave devices. 

[ddamron]

LMAO, that's the SECOND time today I've heard that!!!

ROTFLMAO

[tschak909]

well, the silver lining is really that
you don't have to ditch your existing zwave devices
just plug the insteon stuff alongside it. :-)

That in itself makes the DCE buss 50 gazillion times more powerful than Crestron.

-Thom

[ddamron]

Did I mention the Insteon drivers I'm writing (will) also support X10?

[DeadPenguin]

  UGH!  I gave away most of my X10 devices for almost nothing on Ebay.

* I feel sick. 

[tschak909]

oh well, the native insteon devices are a LOT better anyway

-Thom

[ddamron]

Yes, Much better... by a factor of 10

[nite_man]

I already ordered a whole bunch of weather station components from aagelectronica.com. To connect it to the PC I'm going to use DS9490R USB 1-Wire Adapte (http://www.aagelectronica.com/aag/en-us/p_33.html). For software I have two choices: One-wire weather – Oww (http://oww.sourceforge.net/index.html) and DigiTemp (http://www.digitemp.com/software.shtml). Both of them can be integrated into Orbiter via Computing screen. The interaction between actual sensors and LMCE is planning to be implemented via GSD.

[ddamron]

Cool! I'll be following your efforts with excitement!
Keep us posted!