CloudWatcher Anemometer Placement You’ve received the parcel with your brand new CloudWatcher and Solo plus accessories and are excitedly unboxing the contents and looking forward to setting up your observatory’s weather station. At this moment, you might be inclined to dismiss the anemometer as a cheap piece of plastic that you could have built yourself, […]
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New complete CloudWatcher software suite Hi all, we are releasing updated versions of all CloudWatcher related software, that is, Windows software, Solo, and ASCOM drivers (INDIGO and INDIlib software have their own paths). These not only support our new combined RH+Pressure sensors, but in general provide more modern functionality, such as: – a new
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How the Hydreon works with the CloudWatcher The Hydreon works by opening or closing a contact when it detects rain, and it’s been adapted to work with the CloudWatcher, who expects a variable reading depending on the amount of rain. A special cable has been devised, that will result in two different readings (from the
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Hive Now that the CloudWatcher is able to measure more weather data than ever, that is: ambient temperature, sky reflected IR, humidity, atmospheric pressure, rain, wind… we are reactivating a project of old to apply machine learning to cloud and rain detection. The idea is to collect a huge amount of data, cloudwatcher sensor data and
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we are releasing a new version of the CloudWatcher software, with complete support for both the RH and the newer dual RH + Atm pressure sensor.
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CloudWatcher operated roll off roof Many motor systems include a push button to open or close the roof. They typically require the button to be pushed for a short period of time, and that will trigger the roof to open if closed, or close if opened. One safe way to have the CloudWatcher relay close
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LATEST NEWS! 2025 Feb: It’s official—we’ll be attending this year’s NEAF. 2024 October: New pocketCW2 configuration application released. 2024 May: RTI-Zone releases free plugins for our devices. 2024 Mar: New CW and pocketCW Data Display software released! 2024 Jan: We become partners of ASG’s Astronomy Picture of the Month contest 2024 Jan: We now have
The SOLO CLOUDWATCHER Upgrading the Solo to Version 3.x BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO Upgrading to Firmware Version 3.x Versions from 3.0 are based on a more modern Linux operating system, which must be updated manually. A drive image of the latest version is always
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N.I.N.A. and GNS We are proud to announce that, thanks to Nick Hardy, N.I.N.A. finally supports the Good Night System. It has been achieved by developing a custom plugin – you’ll need a current «nightly» build at this moment. We are really happy to welcome N.I.N.A. to the GNS ecosystem – thank you, Nick! The
Rain sensor: Capacitive or Hydreon version, what to choose? Capacitive sensor Hydreon RG-9 sensor High sensitivity Very high sensitivity Some indication of the amount of rain Indication Rain Yes/No Big surface Big surface Total Integration with CloudWatcher Very good integration with CloudWatcher Quite inexpensive More expensive (still reasonable) Strong heater valid for any weather condition
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