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support for a Boltwood Cloud Sensor II?

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Hi guys,

This must be a FAQ, but I can't find any mention in the forum. Is there an INDI driver that can read the weather data file written by a Boltwood Cloud Sensor or similar devices? I'd love to be able to terminate automated observations based on its cloud and rain status.

Thanks,
Mark
3 years 2 months ago #66234

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We're working on it.
3 years 2 months ago #66235

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Mark,

I was looking for the same thing. We have a weather station that outputs a Boltwood II file and it would be great to have a program that reads the log stream and calls for shutdown if bad weather is detected.
1 year 8 months ago #84294

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What's the format for the output?
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Jasem,

Here is a link to the data file format.

interactiveastronomy.com/skyalerthelp/WeatherDataFile.html

Also attached is a short snippet of a data file.

CS (which is definitely not the case in S//W New Mexico)
Bob
1 year 8 months ago #84313
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so the driver is supposed to monitor some file on disk and process the last line? whenever there is a new line appended, then it processes it. Is this how it works?
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Jasem,

Your description is how I would propose to read the file and act accordingly.
1 year 8 months ago #84315

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or it's just this one line and the file is updated every X minutes?
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A new line is written to the file every 20 sec. The file will grow until the program stops.
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You can look at the short example I sent a few messages ago.
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