Vera and Davis Wireless Weather Station

On top of the outdoor-station-and-indoor-console set (which can be wired or wireless) you have to* buy Davis’s “WeatherLink” software, not for the software but for the bundled datalogger hardware, which plugs into the back of the indoor console and gives the console a serial port. It’s a pity that you can’t buy the datalogger by itself, because the software is really bad.

I’d do that on the Real Computer using wview’s alarm feature, having it run a script on the Real Computer that triggers a scene on Vera via normal HTTP lu_action mechanisms. It’s pretty much exactly what the alarm feature is designed for. The Real Computer can be something as small as a SheevaPlug, FWIW; wview runs on practically any Unix.

  • But see previously-linked blog for an alternative for cheapskates with a soldering iron.

The WGET looks like a possible solution to use the weather alarms to trigger scenes on Vera.
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=6636.msg41412#msg41412

So, here’s a scene which works as a WGET shortcut but has a incompatible extension of .lnk to work with the alarms.

"D:\Programs\wget.exe" -q -O NUL "http://192.168.10.1:3480/data_request?id=lu_action &serviceId=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1&action=RunScene&SceneNum=6"
The alarm needs it to be either an MS DOS or MS Windows executable, including *.exe, *.com, *.bat and *.pif files.

How would I write a batch file to execute the WGET shortcut, or is there another way to wrap the code?

*Edit. I copied the code into notepad and saved it as “TEST” (the quotes eliminate the forced .txt extension) and then did a rename and added .bat. Voilà!! Now the weather station is triggering scenes.

JOD.