Prowler weather station connected via USB. Ubuntu 9.10 doesn't recognise it

frankv · 06-21-2010, 01:26 AM

I'm still working on putting things together in a neat package, but FWIW, here's the first bit of the README

Quote:

BASIC WEATHER STATION TO DATABASE SETUP
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1. First thing you need to do is to give yourself access to the Weather Station device... either you can do everything
as root (not a good idea), or copy the following line to a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/39-weather.rules

SYSFS{idProduct}=="8021", SYSFS{idVendor}=="1941", MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev"

You'll need root access to create that file.

2. Copy all the files in this archive into a directory (e.g. ~/weather)

3. Compile the first simple utility:

gcc -Wall WS_mem.c /usr/lib/libusb.so -o WS_mem

If any error messages come up, go back and check you've got gcc and libusb-dev installed properly.

4. Try out the utility...

./WS_mem

should bring up a usage message

5. Try to read data from address 0 of the weather station

./WS_mem 0

You should see something like this...

0000: 55 aa ff ff ff ff ff ff - ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
0010: 05 20 02 83 09 00 00 00 - 92 00 00 0f 00 00 30 17

If those first 2 bytes aren't 55 and aa, then there's something wrong. Otherwise, you're successfully communicating with your weather station!

Until I get it neatly packaged, go to http://forum.pendec.dk/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=55 to get the source code.

There's also the pywws@googlegroups.com Group which has a complete solution written in Python.

tumutbound · 06-21-2010, 02:33 AM

I have a WH-1080 weather station that I'm running successfully with some python scripts called pywws.

It doesn't provide the same features as the weather software you mentioned
but it does provide all the data as a series of text files.

[It just occurred to me that you could run the Windows weather software under a virtual machine as long as USB can be accessed from it. Must give this a try with VMware]

EDIT: I just tried out the Cumulus software and it works in a VMware session. Guest is running Windows XP

gunterhausfrau · 09-18-2011, 08:33 PM

I'm just finding this, and trying to get the easyweather software to work in Linux (Ubuntu 10.04).

I can get the software going just fine in wine, I've got the hardware talking to my Linux, but don't have the fiddly bits that make the hardware talk to the easyweather software. Has anyone got this going?

Just a note, in case someone else gets stuck. The complilation above didn't quite work as described (newbie here as well) I had to get libusb-dev (as it wasn't installed, get it though the synaptic package manager) then had to change the compile to
gcc -o wssr wwsr.c /usr/lib/libusb-0.1.so.4

Then all (well, most) was well.

Thanks