Archive for September, 2012

I’ve been using LWC (Lightsoft Weather Center) for a couple of years with a weather station outside the house – and it has worked very, very well. But it has a drawback – it is not being updated and further developed.

So of course I was interested when I stumbled across WeatherCat – which seem to be a “drop-in” replacement for LWC :

WeatherCat is designed to work with hardware-based weather stations; as of this time, the following stations are supported:

Davis Vantage, Vue, Envoy, Monitor and Wizard stations. WeatherCat also supports the WeatherLinkIP data-logger.
La Crosse WS23xx range of stations.
Oregon Scientific WMR 928/968 stations.
WeatherHawk stations equipped with an IP server module.
As data is gathered and stored in its database, WeatherCat allows you to view weather statistics such as the lowest temperature, or the highest wind speed over any time period stored in the database. In addition, WeatherCat can generate and upload simple web pages which offer quick ‘canned’ solution to get your weather data on-line as quickly as possible, as well as template driven ‘custom’ web pages that can contain current conditions, graphs, gauges, statistics, webcam images and time-lapse movies; these web pages can be uploaded to your server by WeatherCat for display via a web browser anywhere in the world. A live list of all possible ‘tags’ that can be used in your templates is available here.

[From WeatherCat]