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bhlonewolf
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Hi all,
I've been playing around with Tony's weather macro (thanks Tony!) and was thinking that ultimately being able to pull in rainfall totals would be really useful. Anyone know of a weather service that provides this?
Thanks!
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rainfall? what's that? Been so long here, I've forgotten!
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We'll be glad to give you some. We had 10 inches today in Northwest Florida... Rain gauge is when your house becomes an island.
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I know, you all got hit hard with the front that just came through. We're currently 18.4" behind in our rainfall this year
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Some NWS office webpages have climatological data with monthly rainfall amounts. The NWS office for my area has it here.
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Cool -- thanks!
I'm thinking the info could be really useful for irrigation and other situations. Now, just to find my data out there... I'll post back if I find a good resource that's reasonably parseable.
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Has anyone tried using a tipping bucket rainfall gauge connected to an EZIO module to track rainfall?
I was thinking that using one of these with and my EZIO 2x4, I could have PH update three GVs to have daily, monthly and yearly rainfall totals.
What do you think? Has any one done this sort of thing?
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Ooh. Sounds like an X10 RF door/window sensor would be great for this! Maybe something else for me to try.
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I took your advice Tony and bought a door/window sensor (4 for $20) and this tipping bucket rain gauge.
I bought the rain gauge here.
Operating the bucket manually, it works like a charm. Now we just need some rain.
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My approach took a different approach -- the weather underground data for a local station has quite a bit of information. I'm working on collecting all that information -- precip, hi/lo temp, dew point, humidity, etc. The data of course won't be exact because it's not measured in my backyard, but it's close enough.
Anyone know of easy-to-use sensors to indoor use, like attics, etc.? (Preferably something I can integrate into PH!)
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Good to hear Brady!
WUnderground is great for that. I have a weather geek only a couple miles from me. :)
What kind of sensors do you mean?
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Oops, should've specified! Basically temperature and humidity would be great, so I can monitor conditions either under the house or up in the attic... I hear 1-wire is great for that, but I haven't looked into it.
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If you can run wire, 1-wire is great.
If you can't, there are some wireless ones, too.
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Hmmm ... for what I want to do, I think I can run 1-wire -- any suggestions on getting started with integrating it w/ PH?
Speaking of which and back to the original topic, I realized that the weather underground did indeed have rainfall totals -- so I pull the entire dataset down (they offer it in comma-delimited format -- makes parsing it a bit easier), store it in a database, then can access it from PH. The 2 issues with it are: not quite as simple as I'd like and largely independent of PH, and the datafeed looks like ... well, subject to change. Many different stations have slight variances in naming conventions, so we'll see how long it works. If it works, I'll get temp, humidity, precip, etc. within PH, so this (and maybe a 1-wire sensor in the attic) would really solve all the HVAC and irrigation automation in the house.
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Get a serial 1-wire adapter and a sensor to start playing with. Look at Hobby Boards.
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jbbtex wrote:
I took your advice Tony and bought a door/window sensor (4 for $20) and this tipping bucket rain gauge.
I bought the rain gauge here.
Operating the bucket manually, it works like a charm. Now we just need some rain.
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FWIW - I took the window/door sensor out of it's case and was able to fit into a sealed compartment inside the rain gauge.
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