Grandad's photos

Our old Weather Monitor II has been taken out for sale on TradeMe and our roof now sports a cabled Davis Vantage Pro2 with WeatherlinkIP. I have been waiting for this WeatherlinkIP to become available and it has now, in 2008. It needs 'always-on' Internet, so you plug in the Ethernet cable into your router, and WeatherlinkIP immediately starts uploading data to its slot at www.weatherlink.com. Then you can immediately view the weather at Manurewa, Auckland.

All I had to do is login and alter some of the descriptions and set to metric. I am still working on getting knots displayed instead of feet and miles per hour, the Americans seem to think if you are metric, then you want km/h for wind, not knowing that that is just for cars.



Here is how it arrived, and the box contents.



Here is the display console and what went onto the TV aerial. The anemometer is supposed to be 4M above the roofline, but this installation is for convenience as the speed can't be accurate with the big trees close by. But think of the carbon credits!

There are some more details of the product here. The WeatherlinkIP can put all of its information on the Internet without a computer being connected to move the data. You can also install, if you wish, the included Weatherlink software and view and store the weather data on your computer at your leisure. The data is found though the LAN (Local Area Network), not through a plug-in USB or serial cable.