Hello community,
for quite a while now, I am interested in integrating my local weather conditions into Nina. I own an Astromy.ch MBox and a Hitec weather station deluxe. The MBox is connected to the ascom observing conditions driver. In theory, the Hitec Astro weather deluxe has ascom drivers (safety monitor), too. But they are 32Bit only and I am not able to connect to the device with my 64Bit Nina software, which I have to use for several reasons. So I am using the Hitecs stand alone software, that is delivered with the weather station. So far, there are worse things, because the alerts are fine and although I could not use it in Nina, it works for the ideas I bought it for. But I could not use the data to automate some things in the advanced sequencer. I did not realize this fact when I ordered it and the support from Hitec told me, that there sadly will be no 64Bit driver available.
I now looked for some usable USB or (W)LAN weather stations, that are not that expensive. I am interested in also monitoring wind speed and direction, which my current devices are not able to measure. I currently read this data from OpenWeatherMap into the ascom observing conditions driver, but that's not real and therefore quite useless. Although ascom did not directly support the standard weather devices (other than described on their web site), there may be some possibilities to use the data i.e. by creating a Boltwood file.
So my question is, what weather devices you are using and if you were able to integrate them into ascom/Nina. I could buy an expensive station like the vantage Pro 2, but paying another thousand euros for another weather station is simply not possible at the moment. I am sure, it is worth the price, but in astro photography, there are always some other things you really need for taking better images
. But who am I telling this…
So I am thankful for every idea or comment on this topic.
BTW, the main goal is to later build a permanent observatory and reuse the stuff for that.
Thanks in advance
Clear skies
Christian
for quite a while now, I am interested in integrating my local weather conditions into Nina. I own an Astromy.ch MBox and a Hitec weather station deluxe. The MBox is connected to the ascom observing conditions driver. In theory, the Hitec Astro weather deluxe has ascom drivers (safety monitor), too. But they are 32Bit only and I am not able to connect to the device with my 64Bit Nina software, which I have to use for several reasons. So I am using the Hitecs stand alone software, that is delivered with the weather station. So far, there are worse things, because the alerts are fine and although I could not use it in Nina, it works for the ideas I bought it for. But I could not use the data to automate some things in the advanced sequencer. I did not realize this fact when I ordered it and the support from Hitec told me, that there sadly will be no 64Bit driver available.
I now looked for some usable USB or (W)LAN weather stations, that are not that expensive. I am interested in also monitoring wind speed and direction, which my current devices are not able to measure. I currently read this data from OpenWeatherMap into the ascom observing conditions driver, but that's not real and therefore quite useless. Although ascom did not directly support the standard weather devices (other than described on their web site), there may be some possibilities to use the data i.e. by creating a Boltwood file.
So my question is, what weather devices you are using and if you were able to integrate them into ascom/Nina. I could buy an expensive station like the vantage Pro 2, but paying another thousand euros for another weather station is simply not possible at the moment. I am sure, it is worth the price, but in astro photography, there are always some other things you really need for taking better images

So I am thankful for every idea or comment on this topic.
BTW, the main goal is to later build a permanent observatory and reuse the stuff for that.
Thanks in advance
Clear skies
Christian