Howdy guys!
I suppose it's time I say hello. I'm Toby, and live in Lewisville, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas.
I love Jesus and don't know where I'd be without his eternal and matchless grace. For a living, I fly the 747 for an international carrier and most of my trips involve US-HKG-US flying. It really is a cool job, but I'm gone way more than I would like and miss my wife and three daughters (ages three, two, and five months) a lot while on the road. For hobbies, I really enjoy photography and have built up more Nikon equipment than I should admit. I also really like lawn care and enjoy the boys (and a few gals) on the forum over at AroundTheYard.com (http://aroundtheyard.com/). With water at a pricey premium down here, the chance to monitor and more accurately water my lawn while I'm away on trips was what initially brought me to look at a Davis PWS. Now, thanks to a connected irrigation controller and my Davis PWS, I can check on the lawn, the rain, and the E/T, all from my phone.
I also have a geeky interest in model railroading, telescopes, marine reef tank aquaria, and WordPress. I really enjoy the Meteobridge (http://www.Meteobridge.com) product and use it to upload to all my selected weather networks. It's great because even if the computer goes down, it still sends all my data. However, I really enjoy WeatherCat too, especially for logging data, custom website publishing, and those sexy blue gauges. I don't like to have all my eggs in one basket (http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=1986.msg18242#msg18242), so the combination of the Meteobridge and WeatherCat is good for fault tolerance and each can back up the other. Because the Meteobridge is IP based, I just tell WeatherCat I have weatherlink and point it to the IP. So far, so good.
My WeatherCat website is over at CastleHillsNorth.com (http://www.CastleHillsNorth.com) and any advice, tips, or tricks are always appreciated. A special thanks to Steve (http://www.avon-weather.com) for pointing the way via the WXI template. Though, like him, very little of the original remains! I know so little about html and css that I bumble along for an hour to get done what programmers could do in minutes. However, that's all part of the fun!
I won't even mention politics or how much I love Ted Cruz or how much of a hoax global warming is . . . oops, I just did. At some point I'd like to add an IP camera to my site and to Wunderground via WeatherCat, but that will be a future project. Y'all are great and I look forward to learning all I can from you about WeatherCat, web publishing, and making the weather station experience great.
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