The Server

The Weather Station

The hardware used to supply the weather information is a Dell Precision 650 workstation, with dual Intel Xeon 3.4GHz processors, 4GB RAM and two 1TB Western Digital SATA drives.  The operating system is Windows Home Server and weather station software is Weather Display.  The server also services Active WebCam  software for camera surveillance, Homeseer X10 home automation software for lighting and irrigation control and TiVo desktop for transfer and conversion of TV programmes from TiVo.
Other hardware in the rack is touch screen for system control, D-Link network switch, Netgear ADSL modem and a Netcomm VoIP/PSTN router.

An old Oregon Scientific WM-918 provides an RS-232 connection to the server for weather data.  While this station is quite old (purchased in 2002 from Dick Smith for $399) it still proves to be a reliable weather station.  If I had any reason to upgrade aside from failure, it would be to increase the rainfall resolution.  This station only provides 1mm resolution, where 0.1mm would be nice!  At around $800, I don't think this will happen soon.

Recent Addition

A recent addition to this website is a live weather feed from my folks house at Pambula Beach, on the South Coast of NSW.  This consists of a Davis Weather Monitor II connected to a Dell D400 laptop.