General Information
The WXN server suite is a collection of daemons (servers) that allows the collection and dissemnation of weather data using APRS® and other traditional network interfaces such as ODBC and and web servers.
Supported weather stations are the Heath ID5001 Weather Computer (now marketed by Questech), Peet Brothers Ultimeter series (II, 100, 500, 800, 2000, and 2100), the TAPR T238, the the Davis Instruments Monitor II, Wizard, Perception and Vantage Pro instruments.
The program is written in C/C++ and runs on the Linux platform. Minimum recommended hardware configuration is a Pentium MMX 233 MHz with 256 MB RAM and a 20 MB hard disk with a minimum of two 16550 serial ports.
The system also supports additional sensors via a 1-Wire® interface as well as an interface with a NWS radio equipped with a WR-SAME decoder. Each of these options requires an additional serial port
The following highlights key features of the program:
* Data alarms to record critical data if the programmable trip-point is reached.
* Transmission and reception of APRS® packets. Full exchange of extended data provided by WXN (not natively available in APRS) is supported.
* Support for the McCallie Manufacturing LSU-2000 series EMP lightning sensor.
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