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Technical information and user manuals
The essentials:
- CloudWatcher and Solo – video introduction
- CloudWatcher—first steps
- CloudWatcher + Solo—first steps
- User’s manual
- Software downloads
- Troubleshooting the CloudWatcher
- Setting up the remote mode in the CloudWatcher’s software
- Notes on maintenance and repairs
- Calibrating the darkness reference value
Notes on functionalities:
- Sky temperature model
- Ambient temperature readings and the CloudWatcher
- Some notes on cloud detection
- New sky quality capable light sensor for the CloudWatcher
Setups:
- How the Hydreon Rain Sensor works with the CloudWatcher
- How the Hydreon Rain Sensor works in general
- Anemometer technical characteristics
Utilities:
- Free CloudWatcher TheSkyX Pro plugin – courtesy of RTI-Zone
- Free CloudWatcher WordPress plugin – courtesy of ASG Astronomy
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Configuration and tips
Articles
—BIG ALARMS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES (by Mark Zaslove) – Astronomy Technology Today magazine (Vol-14-Iss-7)
—LUNÁTICO ASTRONOMÍA POCKET CLOUD WATCHER (by Jon Teus) – Astronomy magazine (nº 238 – April 2019), section “Testing Bench” (Spanish version).
—Automated Weather Monitoring for Observatories: Lunatico AAG CloudWatcher Review (by Rouzbeh Bidshahri) — AstroGear Today, Published: Apr 06, 2022.
Repairs and spare parts
- Price list of REPAIRS AND SPARE PARTS
- Replace the LID (and/or the PCB)
- Replace the PCB – extended version
- Relative humidity and Atmospheric pressure sensor installation
- Calibrate the rain sensor for the CW
- How to connect a Hydreon rain sensor to a CW equipped with a capacitive rain sensor
Maintenance for older models:
How to...
Guides for virtual matters:
- Save all CloudWatcher settings to a file
- CloudWatcher Zero Configuration Network
- Setting up MASTER mode
- Setting up REMOTE mode
- Node-RED tutorial
Guides for physical matters:
Information for developers / integrators
Serial protocol documentation:
Other documents:
- Rain sensor heater algorithm
- Object Safe library and installation instructions
- HTML examples to get data from AAG_CloudWatcher / AAG_WeatherCenter and display it in the internet browser
- VB6 example to read/set parameters of the AAG_CloudWatcher
- VB6 example to read data directly from the AAG_CloudWatcher
- VBScript example to start AAG_CloudWatcher
- VBScript example to get corrected sky temperature and display it every 10 seconds
- ACP browser modifications
- ACP browser modifications “read me”