![]() My Davis Vantage Pro 2 station came in a bundle with software from Davis, but it pales in comparison to WeatherSnoop. It works seamlessly with my Davis USB console which is wirelessly connected to my sensor suite outside. The instrument display that displays all the information is intuitive and visually pleasing. You can customize graphs of various data plots, giving the program a polished look. WeatherSnoop 3 allows you to view and access some settings (like archive interval) which are built into the weather station console itself. The developer is VERY open to feature requests and was very helpful when I had questions initially. When new features are added, any questions I have for the developer are answered promptly. ![]() I am a weather "hobbyist" but I feel like a weather pro with this software. I send my data to various websites such as Weather Underground, CWOP, Weather Bug and Personal weather station. There are a few other sites to share with as well. What is the best weather station? Which weather station should I buy? Which weather station is right for me? What factors should I consider? I highly recommend this software.It can be difficult choosing a weather station, even after spending hours on the internet reading all the weather station reviews, recommendations and comparisons. If you have put in the time going through the various forums you will have found that by necessity most people’s reviews and recommendations are of stations they have owned, so it’s difficult to get the view of someone who is familiar with all the major brands. We’ve been selling and servicing all the major brands of weather stations and weather instruments since 2004 so let us cut to the chase and give you the inside knowledge, as it is actually fairly simple.įirst of all let’s address desktop stations (sometimes called temperature stations). These are very basic stations designed for casual use and if they have an outdoor sensor it is at most a temperature and humidity sensor. Typical weather variables measured are temperature, humidity and barometric pressure. Most have clocks with alarms and some have a short range forecasting capability. ![]() The Aercus Instruments WS1173 is a fully featured desktop station that you will find here.įor desktop weather stations one brand is as good as another so select based on the look and feel you like and whether you want outdoor temperature/humidity and how the barometric pressure is displayed (some only show a forecast not the actual pressure number or trend). The rest of this article addresses Complete weather stations which are stations with the full array of outdoor sensors which includes wind and rain sensors.Īt a consumer/commercial level there are two groups of stations, the mid-market weather stations and the higher spec weather stations. In terms of the mid-market brands they all have much the same degree of accuracy, for example +/-1C for temperature and +/-5%RH for humidity. We have also found them to be equally robust as each other, with fault rates not differing widely across the brands. The most common fault is a loss of communication between the outdoor transmitter and indoor console. Then, in the Device config, the user could, optionally, provide the full pathname of the file.īTW, With the ability in WS-3 to define multiple weather underground PWSs as "agents" this plugin really makes scripts like my (now dated) weather underground AppleScript obsolete.More often than not this is setup related so when you buy from us (in addition to the manual) you also get a free 29 page guide to make sure you avoid these common mistakes. So, rather than creating a UI based editing system, the user could create a file with the names of the desired states. This makes a pull-down list pretty hard to use.Īdmittedly, the number of users who might want this feature is limited. That's 70 different measurements times the display options - and most of the measurements are for sensors I do't even have installed. When including a state from a Weather station in an action, control page, condition etc, the list can be very long, especially for some of the advanced weather stations like the Davis Pro series which have 145 states. The ability to prune the list of states displayed for a WeatherSnoop plugin "station" device. In that case I would like to enter a feature request (yeah, I know the likelihood of it's ever getting to the top of the list, but.). Ok, and I can see why you made it dynamic.
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