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On 23 Jul 99, at 2:54, Hugh Vandervoort wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question. Perhaps someone
> can point me in he right dirction.
>
> A friend of mine wishes to set up a remote weather station (At his
> favorite winsurfing beach) and have the real-time results posted to a web
> page. He wants wind speed and direction, primarily, and possibly
> temperature and barometric pressure. What are the hardware requirements,
> and the best way to retrieve/post this info?
I think there are two basic approaches that can be taken to connecting the
instruments to a PC:
1. Digital
Locate instruments that provide a serial or parallel port for connection.
See
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~derekw/ane/anemain.htm
for an example.
2. Analog
The electrical signal from the instruments must go through some sort of A2D
(Analog-to-Digital) conversion. Boards to do this can be fairly expensive,
but an old analog joystick port may be usable and can be found cheaply.
On the web server, a CGI script, ASP page or other "dynamic" HTML construct
allows current values to be retrieved and presented in the context of a
template page.
David G
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