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Placement of the anemometer - cloudwatcher

CloudWatcher Anemometer Placement

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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CloudWatcher with Hydreon rain gauge rg-9

Rain sensor: Capacitive or Hydreon version, what to choose?

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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Cloudwatcher + Solo, more IoT than ever

Cloudwatcher + Solo, more IoT than ever. With the new Solo software version, it will happily publish your data to a MQTT broker, so you can receive it from anywhere. And maybe display it using Node-RED. It will also copy the ASCOM required data file to a NAS server of your choice. And will offer

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