SP Weather - GO / NO GO

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Re: SP Weather - GO / NO GO

Unread post by wildblue30 » Sun Jan 31, 2016 7:56 pm

Hi Rick,

Very interesting charts and information. I was down at SP late this afternoon to fly a few packs. It was mild with little to no wind and made for nice flying conditions, though the flying field itself was a bit soggy.

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Re: SP Weather - GO / NO GO

Unread post by RocketManRC » Mon Feb 01, 2016 3:54 pm

I guess your experience yesterday Jeff agrees with the chart I posted.

I found a new home for the graphing software and fired it up again around noon today. I made it span 3 hours this time which I think shows the trend better.

Definitely not a good flying day today!
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Re: SP Weather - GO / NO GO

Unread post by JohnOSullivan » Sat Feb 06, 2016 1:04 pm

Many thanks Rick for posting that link. It works very well and will give us up-to date conditions at Shannon.
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Re: SP Weather - GO / NO GO

Unread post by RocketManRC » Sun Feb 07, 2016 7:18 am

Unfortunately the collection software crashes once in a while because the connection to the plotting service times out. I'm trying to figure out how to restart it automatically and not lose the data.
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Re: SP Weather - GO / NO GO

Unread post by RocketManRC » Thu Jun 30, 2016 5:12 pm

I finally got this working again and will try and keep it operational!

It is at a new URL:

https://plot.ly/~RocketManRC/25.embed
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Re: SP Weather - GO / NO GO

Unread post by chodgkinson » Thu Jun 30, 2016 7:57 pm

Thanks Rick. I found this quite useful in the past.

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Re: SP Weather - GO / NO GO

Unread post by RocketManRC » Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:33 pm

Not one to give up on something that I think is valuable, I'm trying a completely new approach to this using IoT (Internet of Things) technology :-)

This should be more reliable but most likely not perfect yet:

https://io.adafruit.com/rocketmanrc/dycwind

Let me know if it is working for you, or not!
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Re: SP Weather - GO / NO GO

Unread post by Tom B T-28 » Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:22 am

Working perfectly for me Rick! Excellent! ;)
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Re: SP Weather - GO / NO GO

Unread post by RocketManRC » Mon Jan 16, 2017 2:28 pm

Of course right after posting my message last night, my Internet connection went down for most of the night (which is pretty rare). But it was back on line first thing this morning so there still was some data.

Thanks for your comment Tom. Hopefully I can keep it running this time!
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Re: SP Weather - GO / NO GO

Unread post by JohnOSullivan » Mon Jan 16, 2017 2:37 pm

Thanks Rick. Works well for me.
However unlike the other one gives wind speed only and not direction or temperature.
Very useful.
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