Software for monitoring Dallas Microlan / 1-Wire sensors, weather.
Once you have installed this program, and the programs it depends on, you need to register to use it. There no charge for a licence to use it with one temperature sensor... thus you can "try before you buy". If you like what you see, you can upgrade to a more capable license without having to reinstall the program.
If you have Dallas 1-Wire (aka MicroLan) weather sensors deployed, without using a hub, please give this product a try? It won't upset your current software. (Though you won't be able to run both at the same time on the same Dallas sensors!) When it installs, it doesn't make registry entries or require any .dlls beyond those which come from Dallas, and have to be installed before the Dallas iButton Viewer will work.
If you do not already have 1-Wire sensors deployed, you'll need a little hardware and software... but neither is too expensive in cash or hassle.
The program displays graphs of the last 8 days' weather. It records the weather data in a text file for later use.
Click here to download a self extracting file. After you have saved it, run it. It will allow you to select a directory and then unzip some files into that directory... and nowhere else. N.B.: When the program installed by the self extracting file is run, it will create two text files on your disc.
This is what the program produces....
The text which is in color was added to the screenshot. The diagonal green line marks data that was reloaded to the display upon restarting the program. "Now" is always at the right hand edge. As time passes, the display scrolls to the left. (The green line is gradually lost.)
Not shown in the screenshot are two further windows. One gives the current values of all sensors, displayed numerically. The other shows recent errors as reported by the MicroLan.
Wind direction can be sensed by the program, but I need to provide the program with a code table for the Dallas / AAG direction sensor. Not a complicated task, but tedious. I can do it if there is demand. The cyan bars indicate historical wind direction. The circular icon at the upper right, between "Insert comment" and "Show Celsius" displays the current wind direction.
The program is not confined to monitoring weather. It will display readings from Dallas temperature sensing chips (DS1820), counters (DS2423), and ADC chips (DS2438). Another user of Dallas chips amused his children by monitoring their hamster's exercise wheel, showing how active the hamster was at night. This program could handle that. It can also monitor more than one temperature, so you could compare, say, house, greenhouse, pond and garden temperatures.
The program as it stands is not well suited to monitoring rapidly changing parameters, although if you need something for, say, 4 parameters, checked, say, once a minute, let me know, I'll see what I can do!
While the program does, at present, have rough edges, it is not user un-friendly in all respects! With any Microlan work, the software needs the individual ID codes of the chips being used. To configure this program for your chips, you just edit a simple text file. (Notepad will do fine, though I prefer Textpad from www.textpad.com)
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