I recently moved webhosting and found my new host didn't support FTP. It's a reasonable feature. After all plain FTP isn't secure, and sends logon credientials "in the clear", meaning that if anyone was able to intercept the traffic as it's being transmitted over the internet, the logon credentials could easily be read. Many hosts offer altern...

In a previous post we provided the steps to install ConsoleWD, for a Davis weather station, and FTP the data to your website. As at the time of writing there are lots of other options around setup that you can also use with ConsoleWD. This post will provide a summary of each of those options  Different weather stations First off we look at the...

 If you've been following the series of Raspberry Pi articles you'll see we've covered the following topics:Installation of ConsoleWD - Weather Display for Raspberry PiStreaming a live video feed from your weather webcamAutomating the retreival of files from a source such as a webcamWe now want to get those files off to our website, which this...

I've been running the Windows based  Weather Display software for logging all my weather data for years. One of the nice things it did was to manage my webcamera output, and upload it to my website. With the transistion to the Raspberry Pi, I needed to find a way to grab the webcam image and upload it the site. To solve the problem I deci...

Looking to stream an IP camera to YouTube via a Raspberry Pi. Yes it can be done, and what's more it's reasonably easy to do. The use case for this article is based on setting up a feed for a weather camera, but you can follow the same process if you have another use case in mind.

I've been running the Weather Display software for logging all my weather data for years. I've always felt though that leaving a PC or laptop (I've tried both) on 24 hours/7 days a week just to collect and store weather data was a bit excessive. Also they were Windows based machines, the never ending stream of updates meant that restarts of the mac...

Finding the right webcam for your weather website takes a bit of research. If you have read our first blog on the types of Webcams, you are off to a good start. If not, you can get some good hints and tips by reading that blog.Before you choose a specific model there are some additional considerations to make Security If not set up correctly, webca...

The latest watches and warnings from New Zealand's official forecaster, the MetService, are listed below.  For the most up to date information please refer to the Met Service website.

Recently one of my old web cams died - well to be honest the webcam was fine, but the plastic connection that held the web camera in place, broke and the old sellotape it to the glass window trick, just wasn't going to cut it! I replaced it with an alternative camera I had, but that had actually broken! They were both D-link cameras and had served ...

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