Sunday, February 4, 2018

The Ruxtonweather was rehosted on a linux box running Ubuntu and with what has proven to be the very reliable wview software.  This has been up and running for several years, the blog has just been out of date.

The information on wview can be found at: http://www.wviewweather.com

The computer running the station is a low power machine that is basically a headless laptop consuming less than 4W.  The box is also acting as a poller, poster and controller for the home automation systems.  The integration of the weather station with the other controls on the house have enable a reduction in energy consumption of about 10% year over year for the last ten years.  This trend is coming to an end as there are fewer things to tweak, but the general comfort of the home has also improved.

More on this later.  The system is currently going through a reposting of the publishing point with the demise of the xively free service.  The information, which ranges from soil moisture, to background radiation is being migrated to thingspeak.

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