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Observations / Re: What are your end-of-month climate statistics according to WeatherCat?
« Last post by wurzelmac on April 02, 2026, 06:55:27 PM »Here we go (again...)
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General Discussion / Re: FYI: I'm getting one assertive billy-goat station wagon!!
« Last post by Blicj11 on April 01, 2026, 09:25:10 PM »I love two of these photos as they give us a great perspective of the interior. I really enjoyed looking at the dashboard, including that amazing Buick radio. Well done, Edouard.
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Observations / Re: What are your end-of-month climate statistics according to WeatherCat?
« Last post by Blicj11 on April 01, 2026, 09:00:23 PM »Edouard:
I'm getting old and can't remember how to do something I've done for years.
How do you post the screenshot of Grand's WeatherCat RCP app in the body of your message without uploading it as an attachment?
I'm getting old and can't remember how to do something I've done for years.
How do you post the screenshot of Grand's WeatherCat RCP app in the body of your message without uploading it as an attachment?
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Observations / Re: What are your end-of-month climate statistics according to WeatherCat?
« Last post by elagache on April 01, 2026, 08:20:15 PM »Dear WeatherCat climate watchers,
It is April fool's day, but it is difficult to imagine anything much serious than extreme weather. March was an extreme roller coaster here in the greater San Francisco bay area. This is shown on the report from Canebas Weather Station for this past month:
Once more, I'll make my "plug" to WeatherCatRCP in the hopes that Grand might reconsider and support it.
Since it is another test of the WeatherCat 4.0 beta, here is the same report with the end of the month coming from the Ecowitt station:
Unfortunately, I couldn't locate the Ecowitt station completely out of the trees so I suppose that explains the discrepancies.
Of course the location for the data remains the same:
Sadly drought continues to be a major problem across the western United States as the NOAA spring outlook grimly predicts.
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/spring-outlook-drought-forecasted-to-expand-in-us-west-parts-of-plains
Northern California was briefly proclaimed to be out of drought back in January. I'm sure I wasn't the only person who snickered at such dubious assertions. Skeptics like me would be getting the last laugh if the matter was even remotely funny.
Oh well, . . . . . .
Edouard
It is April fool's day, but it is difficult to imagine anything much serious than extreme weather. March was an extreme roller coaster here in the greater San Francisco bay area. This is shown on the report from Canebas Weather Station for this past month:
Once more, I'll make my "plug" to WeatherCatRCP in the hopes that Grand might reconsider and support it.
Since it is another test of the WeatherCat 4.0 beta, here is the same report with the end of the month coming from the Ecowitt station:
Unfortunately, I couldn't locate the Ecowitt station completely out of the trees so I suppose that explains the discrepancies.
Of course the location for the data remains the same:
Sadly drought continues to be a major problem across the western United States as the NOAA spring outlook grimly predicts.
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/spring-outlook-drought-forecasted-to-expand-in-us-west-parts-of-plains
Northern California was briefly proclaimed to be out of drought back in January. I'm sure I wasn't the only person who snickered at such dubious assertions. Skeptics like me would be getting the last laugh if the matter was even remotely funny.
Oh well, . . . . . .
Edouard
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General Discussion / So how do you bring home a 10' pole? (Re: assertive billy-goat station wagon!!)
« Last post by elagache on April 01, 2026, 07:57:34 PM »Dear WeatherCat fans of a certain rascally wagon,
As noted elsewhere, my Ecowitt station is currently being beta-tested on a 10 foot galvanized steel pipe. So how - pray tell - does one bring such a piece of pipe home? 60 years ago, the DIY types did it this way:
Note that you'd better not need a section of pipe much longer that 10 feet!
Of course, even when hauling such awkward cargo, there is no reason why you can't do it in style!
Mission accomplished!!
Edouard
As noted elsewhere, my Ecowitt station is currently being beta-tested on a 10 foot galvanized steel pipe. So how - pray tell - does one bring such a piece of pipe home? 60 years ago, the DIY types did it this way:
Note that you'd better not need a section of pipe much longer that 10 feet!
Of course, even when hauling such awkward cargo, there is no reason why you can't do it in style!
Mission accomplished!!
Edouard
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Development Blog / Indeed - very interesting!! (Re: Ecowitt - some thoughts)
« Last post by elagache on March 28, 2026, 09:18:17 PM »Dear Reinhard, Stu, and WeatherCatters with roadtrip inclinations . . .
Very Interesting!!
![[wink]](https://athena.trixology.com/Smileys/default/smilewink.gif "Wink")
. . . . There is just one thing I don't get. Just how to you install the soil sensors on a travel trailer? Do you mount them on the outside of the tires? Must be awful rough trying to get those sensors to perpetrate the asphalt!!! . . . 
Seriously, I haven't bought it yet, but one sensor that is very appealing is a particulate pollution sensor. During one amateur astronomy camping trip when I was living in San Diego, we had a plume of smoke rise up over our camp ground. However, it was difficult to judge how far away the smoke was. Ironically, I don't have the same need for such a sensor at home because so many other people in the area have one!![[biggrin]](https://athena.trixology.com/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif "Big Grin")
However, when you are camping you can't rely on a neighbor!
Stay tuned!!
Edouard
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All this sensors and the Console are very affordable and what I spent for all those sensors is less than the half I spent for my Davis equipment with only two extra sensors.
Very Interesting!!
. . . . There is just one thing I don't get. Just how to you install the soil sensors on a travel trailer? Do you mount them on the outside of the tires? Must be awful rough trying to get those sensors to perpetrate the asphalt!!! . . . Seriously, I haven't bought it yet, but one sensor that is very appealing is a particulate pollution sensor. During one amateur astronomy camping trip when I was living in San Diego, we had a plume of smoke rise up over our camp ground. However, it was difficult to judge how far away the smoke was. Ironically, I don't have the same need for such a sensor at home because so many other people in the area have one!
However, when you are camping you can't rely on a neighbor!Stay tuned!!
Edouard
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Development Blog / Re: WeatherCat 4.0 purring using a Ecowitt on Mojave (Re: Ecowitt - some thoughts)
« Last post by WCDev on March 28, 2026, 09:34:31 AM »
So even on an old and out-of-date MacBook running Mojave, WeatherCat 4.0 Beta is just purring along!
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Development Blog / Re: Ecowitt - some thoughts
« Last post by wurzelmac on March 27, 2026, 12:21:24 PM »Here we go, Edouard:
All this sensors and the Console are very affordable and what I spent for all those sensors is less than the half I spent for my Davis equipment with only two extra sensors.
All this sensors and the Console are very affordable and what I spent for all those sensors is less than the half I spent for my Davis equipment with only two extra sensors.
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Development Blog / WeatherCat 4.0 purring using a Ecowitt on Mojave (Re: Ecowitt - some thoughts)
« Last post by elagache on March 25, 2026, 11:45:14 PM »Dear Stu and Weather
As promised the station arrived just before the start of the work week and it is a cute little machine. Here is a close-up of the sensor array:
Here is the array on the mast which Biquette brought home (another story to be reported later . . . . )
Here is a comparison of the console with the old-reliable Davis Vantage Pro-2 console:
In comparison the Davis console definitely looks a bit out of date:
. . . . Bummer dude! Is this one of those - you've gotta read da' instructions sorta' things? . . . .
. . . . Alright, Alright . . . . Since I got such a good deal on the console, why not add the GW3000 to the mix! . . .
These little hubs are very cute in their own right:
They transmit directly to an iOS App, so you could install one of these GW3000 hubs and save some of that precious RV real estate and lookup either a quick update with your phone or tablet or get more detailed information using WeatherCat.
Speaking of which:
So even on an old and out-of-date MacBook running Mojave, WeatherCat 4.0 Beta is just purring along!![[cat]](https://athena.trixology.com/Smileys/default/animal-smiley-027.gif "Cat")
Actually this problem is already solved. I was strongly urged to go with SpaceX Starlink. I already have the Starlink mini antenna so that's my venue for Internet and it includes it's own IP-router and Wi-Fi.
What I'm going to do with this weather station is more murky. My worry was that I would end up RVing in extreme conditions and wanted to know how cold things got in case pipes were in peril of freezing - or something similar.
However, this journey is just started so - stay tuned!
Edouard
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So my very own ECOWITT Wittboy Pro Weather Station HP2564 is arriving on Sunday. I'm going to try to run WeatherCat 4.x on the laptop I use to tune my trusty wagon so that I don't have to risk my Mac Mini which kind of runs the house.
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As promised the station arrived just before the start of the work week and it is a cute little machine. Here is a close-up of the sensor array:
Here is the array on the mast which Biquette brought home (another story to be reported later . . . . )
Here is a comparison of the console with the old-reliable Davis Vantage Pro-2 console:
In comparison the Davis console definitely looks a bit out of date:
Looking at the manual for that one Edouard, I do not see that it has a local API which WeatherCat could access (happy to be corrected if someone has more 'Ecowitt' knowledge
A quick search brings up https://meshka.eu/Ecowitt/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start#apis_application_programming_interfaces - there's a list of what does and doesn't have a local API there. It appears it doesn't.
. . . . Bummer dude! Is this one of those - you've gotta read da' instructions sorta' things? . . . . [Edit: Thinking about what you're doing, I'd be inclined to throw a GW3000 into the mix - these can be picked up on places like Amazon at reasonable prices. The GW-3000 does have the local API and is fine with WeatherCat. Fit it with an 8GB SDCard and get the WS90 registered with that, then when you open your laptop, WeatherCat will pull down the historical data from the GW3000 then resume real-time operation.]
. . . . Alright, Alright . . . . Since I got such a good deal on the console, why not add the GW3000 to the mix! . . . These little hubs are very cute in their own right:
They transmit directly to an iOS App, so you could install one of these GW3000 hubs and save some of that precious RV real estate and lookup either a quick update with your phone or tablet or get more detailed information using WeatherCat.
Speaking of which:
So even on an old and out-of-date MacBook running Mojave, WeatherCat 4.0 Beta is just purring along!
One other observation - you're going to need wifi in your van so that both WeatherCat and the Ecowitt are on the same network - something to consider.
Actually this problem is already solved. I was strongly urged to go with SpaceX Starlink. I already have the Starlink mini antenna so that's my venue for Internet and it includes it's own IP-router and Wi-Fi.
What I'm going to do with this weather station is more murky. My worry was that I would end up RVing in extreme conditions and wanted to know how cold things got in case pipes were in peril of freezing - or something similar.
However, this journey is just started so - stay tuned!
Edouard
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General Computing/Macintosh / Re: WC not seeing my VP2 Serial via Startech USB adapter on M1 MacMini
« Last post by elagache on March 23, 2026, 10:30:53 PM »Dear FurryOne and WeatherCat troubleshooters,
Unfortunately, RS232 technology is not getting the support anymore that it once got. Even if it appears to be working, there might be issues that prevent WeatherCat from operating. Is there any chance you could retrace your steps by running WeatherCat on the Intel MacMini via the Keyspan adapter? It would help to start by determining what does work and add complexity from there.
Edouard
I'm currently running Weather Display on an old Intel MacMini via Keyspan USB adapter. I've split the RS232 stream to run one side into a StarTech USB adapter to an M1 MacMini with the Prolific driver. WeatherCat setup IDs the port, but fails to see the Station. I see in the WC setup that the VP2 Console's Forecast Ticker should not be running, but there is no information in the Davis manual on how to turn it off. Is this possibly a problem with the Startech adapters? (Yes, I've removed the rs232 splitter and got the same results.).
Unfortunately, RS232 technology is not getting the support anymore that it once got. Even if it appears to be working, there might be issues that prevent WeatherCat from operating. Is there any chance you could retrace your steps by running WeatherCat on the Intel MacMini via the Keyspan adapter? It would help to start by determining what does work and add complexity from there.
Edouard