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This past Christmas I was the proud recipient of a new La Crosse
WS-2316U.  For those of you who do not know what that is, it is a mini
weather station that has indoor/outdoor temperature and humidity, a
self emptying rain gauge, and wind speed with direction.  It also can
hook up to a computer so it can upload the weather data to many
different sites.  I choose to upload my weather data to Weather Underground.  More specifically my station ID is KPAIMPER4, and you can also see the current conditions by going to my weather page at http://www.melbert.net/weather.

I use MEPIS Linux
instead of Windows so it made it a little bit more of a challenge to
get everything working.  But it still was not very hard.  I am using Open2300
to talk to my WS2316U.  Since Debian does not have a precompiled
package, I grabbed the version from subversion which is 1.11 so I could
compile it myself.  All you have to do is run a make and make install
and it works perfectly.  I put the wu2300 application script in my
crontab to upload my weather data to Weather Underground every 5
minutes. The hardest part of the whole thing was getting the
open2300.conf file configured...but that too was relatively easy.

For
now I am just going to rely on Weather Underground for my weather
data.  I looked at the default website that comes with Open2300 but was
not really impressed by what I saw.  I need to see if there is any
other web software that works with Open2300.  If there isn't I may use
the feature that allows uploading the data to a mysql database and then
writing a php front end for it.  But that is not high on the priority
list.  Keep checking http://www.melbert.net/weather for any updates.