Niko,
Is there a thread or a subject on the various non-standard things that people have developed and fed the data into WD somehow?
I know there is a single wire discussion, Normal Wx station selection from the main station setup for WD, and Labjack stuff.
But if I had a really neat Gizmo 137 mod IV that sensed I don’t know, maybe how fast my tomatoes were growing, how would I get that instrument plus my computer and an RS232 or USB to make that number available to WD? And then how to customize one of the many extra sensor buckets that WD has, such as using a temperature sensor slot to store and graph and manipulate those data?
If someone has their laser snow depth measuring device, how to configure WD to see it? I’ve looked at the FAQs and maybe I just didn’t see it as a subject or group, perhaps being more specific rather than too general.
This is the forum for that type of activity, but beyond that there’s nothing organized. Many have expressed interest in e.g. a solar sensor, and some of us have the skills to design that kind of thing, but most of the interested parties do not have the skills to implement the project. In the past I have even put together kits of the essential parts and detailed information for a Davis compatible UV/Solar sensor, but no one who got a kit actually put it together. I no longer volunteer :lol:
There are two members of this forum who have completed projects that I’ve had a hand in, one built VP UV and Solar sensors that are working well, and the other built a skytemp (cloud cover), precip, light level, UV, sensor array that uploads the data directly to their website.
There’s a good long thread about the laser snow depth sensor, and some other 1-wire sensors have been incorporated into WD. Also I believe Brian has added some other wx related sensors that output data to a file read by WD.
But it’s hardly reasonable to expect Brian to add non-weather related sensors or everybody’s different concept of an interface for e.g. a solar sensor to WD. In these days of data driven php websites there are many ways to feed other data to the webserver and incorporate it into the site.
Looks like I may have had a setting wrong on the Bloomsky setup as it appears it was using it’s data for everything. Changed that, will see how it looks after I get off of work.
Ignore the post after this one. I got my “flatlining” figured out. Now I just have to figure out what needs to be set for the max solar for lat/long setup. I do have my settings in there. 3500 lux is showing up on the main screen but it is showing 0m/W on the graphs. May have to now wait until it is light again to see if that changes.
There is no direct conversion for sunlight so whatever you do will be wrong in some way and is sure to come back to bite you as soon as someone turns on the sunlight hours calculation :lol:
120,000 lux is quoted as being “brightest sunlight at noon”, so if you must I would just divide by 100 making that an estimated 1200 W/m2, or 120 for 1000 W/m2 :dontknow:
It will be interesting to see what values hankster’s station actually produces, and how it varies with sun elevation.
A little searching shows an approximate conversion of 0.0079 W/m2 per Lux (from Berkeley University). But working through the numbers I seen today that doesn’t seem correct for what Bloomsky is putting out. If I can get a few clear days here let me see if I can figure out something that is close.
Whoa 8O I see users reporting some huge raw luminance numbers like 1707285 in this discussion. Also some seem to be saying that the number is peak(?) value that only resets once or maybe twice day.
My “Lux” number definately went down as the the sun set. It is currently reading 16. They must be talking about something else or since that discussion is a year old it may have changed.
the divide by 0.0079 looks correct as that is what I do use for another weather station (the WH3081)
so I will add that into WD and update and let you know
