How it works
High level overview on how it all hangs together, on a high level. The weather station constantly expans when additional funding becomes available.
Weatherstation Elements
| Computer (Element) | Description |
| Davis VP (Wireless) Weather Station | Davis VP weather station, for more information <click> |
| Weather Server | This is a sever running in my office, it collects the weather data and makes it ready for use on the internet. |
| Web Server | One of my servers in my server farm, they are co-located in Seattle (USA). <click here> |
| MySQL server | One of my MySQL servers located in Seattle (USA) <click here> |
| Plasmatronic & Wind Turbine | This is my Wind Turbine (the one you can see with the Web Cam), used to study if wind energy or solar is the better "green" solution for me. |
| Web Cam | Just to keep an eye on my "crazy neighbors" (just kidding). It points South-West from my location, you can see the Wind Turbine. It is an old DV camera converted to a Web Cam. |
| Your Computer | This is your computer when you browse to my site. |
Links in the diagram.
| Link | Description | Raw file data |
| 1. | This link collects data from my test site, it collects data from the Wind Turbine and a small solar panel to compare which "green energy" form is more efficient based upon footprint, cost and maintenance. It also controls my driveway lights, the driveway lights will put a load on the battery allowing the Wind Turbine to charge again. This is done to prevent a load dump from the Wind Turbine & Solar panel. |
The plasmatronic creates a file that looks like this <click here> . This data will be imported into a database in the future. |
| 2. | Web Cam link, I build a cable that converts RCA cable to RJ45 this allows for a longer distance. The video feed is collected by my Weather Server and pushed up to the Web Server. | |
| 3. | Wireless link from the weatherstation outside, back to my weather server. This is the "RAW" weather data and is collected every 2.5 seconds. (I need to check that :-)) | |
| 4. | My weather server consolidates all the data using Weather Display software, it than uploads the weather data to the internet. It typically uploads the weather data every 5 minutes, for more details.....<click> |
The following raw data files are created: <ClientRaw.txt> updated every minute to feed the live data display on the webpage.
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| 5. | The webserver runs a cron job to collect the weather data text file and uploads this into the MySQL server. I tried to use a direct connect feed from my Weather Server to the MySQL server but it is to limited. Hence this work around. | |
| 6. | Your connection to my Web Server :-). (Now I know where you live LOL). |