HI Steven

I have one of the Fine Offset / Easy Weather / WS1081 type
(goes under several names!) - same as this one from Maplin
http://www.maplin.co.uk/usb-wireless...ecaster-223254

Good news is that it works, it's cheap, it's wireless, and connects to a
PC via USB.
Bad news is that it's prone to collecting spikes of duff data - which
isn't such a big deal if it's only for your own information but makes it
look a bit daft if you share the data.

There's some excellent (free!) software called Cumulus that will talk to
most types of weather station - you could take a look in their forums to
see what people are recommending.

My weather station is here
http://www.ambquality.co.uk/weather/trends.htm
(uses 'out of the box' Cumulus software - keep meaning to incorporate
the Cumulus data into a 'proper' website, but no incentive to do that
until / unless I solve the phantom spikes thing. To be fair, later
version of Cumulus do include 'sanity filters' that remove nonsense data
from the weather station, just haven't found the necessary 'round tuits'
yet.... You can see the spikes in the 'max/min temperature' graph.

The Cumulus forums are here http://sandaysoft.com/forum/

The last time I looked, there seemed to be a definite 'gap' between
cheapy weather stations like mine and stuff costing 5x as much, which
was 'semi-pro'. At the moment the spare money's in the same place as the
round tuits g

Hope this helps
Adrian

On 24/10/2011 23:06, Steven Campbell wrote:
I know a few folk have spoke about these before on here so can anyone
recommend a reasonably priced one? Or definite types to avoid?

Cheers

Steven.