Last weekend I added the final sensor to the Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station on the roof; a UV sensor. The software which reads the data has been updated to read UV value and calculate sunshine hours per day, both of which are automatically reflected in the Weather gadget. I have yet to update live weather page as this is quite a big job; like many things IT related its not as simple as adding a graph to the page – the software I use has been updated and now has an editor, but it will require a bit of work to migrate the existing page to the new version so I’ll save that for another day.
On Sunday I was back up on the roof fitting a solar sensor on my Davis Instruments Vantage Pro2 weather station.
The sensor records how much solar radiation is reaching earth (well, specifically its recording how much is reaching my roof) in watts per square meter.
The installation went pretty smoothly as did changing the configuration of Weather Display which runs on a PC permanently recording weather conditions every minute and updating the various weather websites as frequently as every three seconds.
Adding the sensor instrument to my animated web page was a different story though: taking about 3 hours to move everything around to get the new sensor and graph onto the page. However, I think it was worth it – you can now see graphs of solar, temperature, wind speed and barometer for the last 24hrs along with all the other sensors.