Well if you think it is reasonably simple why don't you try your hand at it.
I might do that once I get my current tasks completed. I'll first have to determine what and where the values needed are. Should it be the daily rain total or the soil sample? If the soil sample, at what time of the day should it be recorded, or should it be an average value? If an average, how many values should be used per day? etc., etc. As I said,
that is the difficult part.
I have visited both those AS related sites, and several others, also. I have spent a good deal of time getting the AS I created to work... until I encountered another problem with the text fed to it. I have decided to just use AS to simply write the complete "uptime" result to a file and manipulate it with PHP.
PHP
is less "English" like, but it is also much more widely supported and developed. After all, both were designed to do different things; AS mostly to control/auotmate Apple hardware, PHP to make interactive web sites on multiple hardware providers. Different tools for different tasks.
The AS easily runs the bash command and writes the little text file. WC's built-in server uploads it fine. PHP can then do its thing on whatever it's fed. I used
LaunchControl to set up the system function to run the AS every 15 minutes. It has s a nice GUI and allows one to use it free for several days. I downloaded an older, simpler app, but it did not one to save the setup without paying for a license. Since they were the same price, I gave the benefit of a purchase to the one that allowed un-restricted use.