Hi, I am looking at displaying data from two sources with RTMC. I have a CSI weather station near a cabin at the beginning of a hiking trail, and I'd like to connect the datalogger directly (via serial cable) to a computer in the cabin that would display current conditions. However, there are also two weather stations further along the trail and it would be great to have theoir data appear on the cabin display.
The two up-trail stations transmit via satellite, but the data gets archived on the web. The cabin has internet access. The question is, can RTMC accept data from a website and display it alongside the serially-connected-datalogger data? Or can it only talk to an actual Loggernet server?
I am just getting started with RTMC and I'm not really sure it's right for what I'm trying to do. So any suggestions on how to display current conditions from all three stations side-by-side would be helpful.
The standard RTMC can only use Loggernet as it's data source. However, RTMC Pro can accept data from files stored in a range of formats:
ASCII Table Data, Short Header (TOACI1),
ASCII Table Data, Long Header (TOA5),
ASCII Mixed Array, Comma Separated (requires FSL or DLD file)
Binary Table Data (TOB1),
Binary Table Data, PC Card (TOB2),
Binary Table Data, PC Card (TOB3),
CSIXML Data File
So if you have RTMC Pro and can pull the raw data back onto that PC from the internet, in one of the above Campbell formats you can display it.
Alternatively if you can capture the webpage as an image (outside of RTMC using 3rd party tools) in RTMC Pro you can place that image in your design with a refresh interval when it will re-read the file.
Bottom line, currently RTMC cannot read or display standard web pages within its own display.
* Last updated by: aps on 5/13/2011 @ 3:08 AM *
Is the satellite GOES or private?
Hey, thanks for the tips. The satellite is GOES.
There is public domain software to pull the GOES data from the NOAA servers into your PC. I've used this before to retrieve and convert data into a specific format for upload into a server where clients logged in to view the data. I'm not sure if my NOAA login is still active but if I had the station ID I could look at the data file.
Hi Dave - I would love to know more about the software. The station is Sheep Camp, GOES ID 39625384.
Odd message format. I've usually seen a long string.
3962538411137002411G39-0NN108WXW00091
00.00
004
145
016
999
014
14.3
093
007
00663
000
022
017
015
Please email me.