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LATEST NEWS!

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 […]

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Updating the Solo to version 3.0 and newer

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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How the Hydreon Rain Sensor works

AAG CLOUDWATCHER How the Hydreon Rain Sensor works BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO Extract taken from the page of the manufacturer Hydreon. Hydreon Optical Solid State Rain Sensors generate infrared light that is directed within the lens to detectors. When water drops hit the outside

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AAG CloudWatcher, Android widget

CLOUDWATCHER Android Widget for CW Solo Users   BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS Technical information and configuration for CloudWatcher Key Features of the Android Widget It uses our new “ZeroConf” system so no network knowledge required! Download the app from here you’ll have to give your phone permissions

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CloudWatcher

CLOUDWATCHER Measuring sky conditions since 2008! Now with sky-quality grade light sensor at no extra cost! BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS VIDEO TUTORIALS Technical information and configuration for CloudWatcher Blog articles about the CloudWatcher CloudWatcher, the high precision, low-cost system for monitoring the weather conditions and measuring the

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SOLUTIONS – CLOUD DETECTION

OUR ADVANCED REMOTE OBSERVATORY SOLUTIONS CLOUD DETECTION AND SKY QUALITY MEASURING CloudWatcher, measuring sky conditions since 2008. PocketCW2, portable cloud detector. The SOLO CloudWatcher, designed to make the most of the AAG CloudWatcher. Lanternfish, measures MPSAS with date and time, accessible via Wi-Fi and built-in web interface.

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Why is the CloudWatcher software signalling unsafe?

AAG CLOUDWATCHER Why is the CloudWatcher software signaling unsafe? BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO With all the options and situations, sometimes it’s difficult to find out where last night’s unsafe came from. Specially true as the data in the user data file (or Solo graphs)

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CloudWatcher as a watchdog

AAG CLOUDWATCHER CloudWatcher as a watchdog BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO Being able to use the CW as a watchdog (“watching” PC activity, and closing the relay in case the PC freezes) is a well known CloudWatcher feature, but one happy user, Vincent Steinmetz, just drew our

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Setting up a simple web server with AAG CW information

AAG CLOUDWATCHER Setting up a simple web server with AAG CW information BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO I’ve just been asked about checking the AAG CloudWatcher information from a smartphone, so I set up a very simple web server publishing the AAG graphs. You can

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CloudWatcher, for backyard observatories

CLOUDWATCHER Essential for Backyard Observatories BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS Technical information and configuration for CloudWatcher Why CloudWatcher is Ideal for Home Observatories If your observatory is just a few meters away… a simple way to go to sleep with peace of mind (well, some…) is to

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