tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922503085503427986.post8930266820028533249..comments2024-03-28T08:13:43.922-07:00Comments on Desert Home: Getting Back To The Weather Stationdavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11608589214882334649noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922503085503427986.post-9244999013716367962015-04-20T17:14:01.434-07:002015-04-20T17:14:01.434-07:00Ha, I could forecast sunny and warm every day and ...Ha, I could forecast sunny and warm every day and be right 335 days a year and have a better record than the weather services. The weathermen here complain that the weather is boring and not really worth wasting time on every evening. <br /><br />Then, we get three inches in 20 minutes and it floods out entire towns.<br /><br />Sigh...davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11608589214882334649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922503085503427986.post-42745620919694480332015-04-20T15:32:45.013-07:002015-04-20T15:32:45.013-07:00Thanks Dave, I have to confess that I didn't g...Thanks Dave, I have to confess that I didn't get it to where it is at without a lot of help from others. A weather station called Temp'O Matic written by Timo 'Boozeman' Viinanen really got me pointed in the right direction. Dean-O's Toy Box (Google it) gave me great ideas for dynamic updates.<br /><br />There is one thing I wish I would have done but never could decide on how. That is recording the sky conditions. We have had way more sunny days this year here in Tigard Oregon than what I remember. It is really remarkable. I wish I had collected that information just to compare from previous years.<br /><br />I wrote code to parse the forecast from NOAA could have used that, but I just didn't. I guess I should do it so next year I can compare, if we go back to rainy almost every day.<br /><br />badhairdayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09741910097113504530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922503085503427986.post-7956368591781506532015-04-15T20:35:34.948-07:002015-04-15T20:35:34.948-07:00I was hoping you would chime in Chris. I've se...I was hoping you would chime in Chris. I've seen Chris' weather display, and frankly, it's really great. <br /><br />The idea of RRD is appealing, and I may well do that too. I've noticed that monitoring my power gets boring for long stretches, but then I get an idea and pull up certain day's usage to see what happened. A good example is what happens to the power I use on a rainy day, the hottest day this month, that kind of thing.<br /><br />You've given me some great ideas, thank you.davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11608589214882334649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922503085503427986.post-88930532167170869762015-04-15T18:13:08.132-07:002015-04-15T18:13:08.132-07:00I didn't know what I wanted when I began stori...I didn't know what I wanted when I began storing data from my weather station a dozen years ago. Storage not being a problem, I stored all sensors data in a MySQL database every 5 minutes. I also stored them in a RRDTOOL database for graphing.<br /><br />As I started to know what was useful, I started rolling up the MySQL data into daily, weekly, monthly tables. Things like daily temperature high, low, and time it occurred, and averages. This was to reduce the time to create the web page. Then I could truncate the main database, but never did.<br /><br />Graphing 24 hour temperatures and such gets less interesting in time. That is partly why I used RRDTool, a round robin database. I can still graph a year, but beyond, I don't care.<br /><br />Now for example, I can easily see how many days that we had freezing and below in April for the past 8 years. The number of years I have lived at my current address. It gives me an idea when I can plant my garden. <br /><br />Chris<br /><br />badhairdayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09741910097113504530noreply@blogger.com