BIOS Weather Station BW976 - update 2 June 2008
Posted by David Wilson in mac.Tags: BIOS, BW976, CE1177, mac, usb, Weather Station
trackback
If you have one of these weather stations, you can now download the application (as is, where is) and the source code. Are the strings attached? DEFINITELY. I want you to tell me and other what you do with it!
My goal with the weather station is to get a old Mac Mini (doesn’t make any noise or very little) and run it in a DMZ off my firewall, then on the Mac Mini run OS 10.5 and use the built in web browser to serve weather data and graphs from my home on the internet. I am missing a few things… A Mac Mini for starters, then the software to run on the web pages, and time to implement. So if you get there first… I want to know.
I’m looking forward to some good stories…
Hi David,
I picked up a Bios BW953 for cheap (yard sale) yesterday. Of course, it doesn’t have Mac software. I tried downloading your software to see if it would work with this unit as well, but your software doesn’t seem to run on my Mac (1.5GHz PowerBook G4, 10.4.11). It looks like it’s launching, but then it just disappears from the the Dock.
What I’d like to do is data logging for the wind component… I’m trying to test a spot for its usefulness for a small wind turbine. Ideally, I’d be able to log the data and make a Weibull graph of the wind… mph of wind vs. predicted hours per year that it will be that speed. Something like this (scroll down to the Weibull graph) http://www.otherpower.com/windbasics1.html
Thanks,
-Norm.
Hi David
I am interested in purchasing a weather station that is Apple compatible. Unfortunately I am not very computer savvy and am therefore a little unsure how to obtain your software? In addition, I am not sure which particular weather station it is compatible with?
Kind Regards
Jason