weeWX: open source software for your weather station

Some schools did experiment with a change in methodology ie how to teach students today. They are going for project based teaching. One of them could be the setup of a weather station! Obviously it involves the collaboration of several teachers and students but that is a great asset for students today as nobody can work all alone. They see the example of teachers helping each other. They see various students giving their input,comments, questions…..and that makes teaching and learning real fun!  It could be the best preparation for their future when they would be called to work with different type of people!

Today we are presenting an open source program called weeWX. On the same page one can: download; read documentation; go through the users’ group; learn how to publish readings etc…...If one prefers youtube videos in order to learn, here is the link. An interesting factor is that most schools are using the raspberry pi 3 in order to maintain the weather station!!

The weeWX program can do several things:

Support for many popular weather stations;

Uploads to popular weather sites including WeatherUnderground, PWSweather.com, CWOP, WOW, and AWEKAS and others;

Uploads to your website using FTP or rsync;

Extensive celestial almanac;

Ability to create or modify skins (the look and feel of your weather site);

Support for localization;

Simple, but extensible templating system;

Native support for US or Metric unit systems;

Support for sqlite or MySQL databases;

Calibration corrections;

Filtering of anomalous values;

An easy to understand, simple, extensible micro-kernel architecture;

Ability to extend weeWX with new services and reports.