Short: Monitors RS WX200 Weather Station Author: Rick Schnicker Uploader: rschnick franklin se-iowa net Type: misc/misc Architecture: m68k-amigaos This program is FreeWare. WX200 is my first major attempt at writing a program for the Amiga. It will monitor the data stream from a Radio Shack WX200 Weather station, decode it and display most of the measurements in two windows. Some of the inside readings the weather station samples I do not display at this time. I mainly wanted this program to monitor outside weather. I also wanted something that would warn me in case of bad weather (heavy rain, high winds, extream temps) by calling me on the phone or sending me a page. I wish to record the highs and lows as well. This program is currently in beta. It does most of what I want but not in as graceful a manner as I would like....Yet. ;) INSTRUCTIONS ============ Install all the files in the directory of your choice. The file named WX200.CFG is the config file. The default values should work for everyone. SERIAL ** if this line is absent serial.device is default ** SCREEN ** custom = HIRES_LACED public = WORKBENCH screen ** ** if this line is absent custom is default ** PAGER ** if this is set to "on" the program will send ** ** weather updates to and alphanumeric pager every ** ** 4 hours in a group name "weather". You must ** ** have "CyberPager" installed and configured for ** ** this option to work. "CyberPager can be found ** ** on AMINET. There is a menu choice for manually ** ** sending the page as well. ** When the program is executed it will try and sync up with the station. After that the windows will be updated every 5 seconds. There are 2 windows of data. The primary window is displayed all the time. The secondary window can be toggled on and off from the menu. At midnight the program will record the highs and lows for the day in a file named "weather_data.txt". This will be appended to every night. Recorded data: (all on one line) date high-temp low-temp high-humidity high-wind-chill high-wind-speed high-rainfall-rate, daily-rainfall, total-rainfall, high-pressure low-pressure SCREEN RESOLUTION: This program looks best on a hires screen with atleast 600 x 400 pixels. I view it on a 1280 x 1048 16 bit PicassoV screen. Looks good. Your results may vary. ;) CONTACTING THE AUTHOR ===================== Like I said the is a beta release and it might be alittle buggy, although I haven't seen any problems yet. There are many features I would still like to add including a configuration window. If you find any bugs or have suggestions for other features please email me. rschnick@franklin.se-iowa.net HISTORY ======= Revision Comments ------------------------------------------------ 1.00b First beta release.