Over the last couple of weeks I have been writing a MQTT to COSM bridge. Unfortunately (I think because of COSM) it has only been staying up and running for a few hours at a time.
I've just written a WeatherCat to MQTT bridge using the excellent WeatherCat Applescript interface.
MQTT allows lightweight publish and subscribe functionality and is used for process control, Arduino projects and lots of other fun things. The bridge I've written uses the open source MQTT tool Mosquitto
Last Friday we set a Wind Record of 76 km/h at our weather station at Merewether. I estimate that about 20 minutes after this record wind the rain collector of the Vantage Vue blew away! (It's the big black bit on the attached photo).
It's pretty big, about the size of a 4 litre paint tin, and is held into place with 4 plastic lugs
After months and months of frustration with battery issues with my Vantage Vue, I have now upgrade to a Vantage Pro 2 Plus. The 'Plus' bit means that we now have UV and Solar Radiation available.
Lets hope the Vantage Pro has a long and happy life.
Another new battery goes in - the second of Sanya Advanced Lithium II CR123A. The 'dead' battery had about 1V left. Gee the Vantage View goes through them. I also applied di-electric grease on the programming contacts as per the suggestions here: www.wxforum.net/index.php
A new battery is in the weather station and all is good again. Maybe the rain gauge is always the first to go when the battery on the Vantage Vue is on the way out.
Of course, and welcomingly, the rain has stopped so I can't actually confirm that the rain gauge is OK but all looks good with a little test of droplets.
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