List of equipment at this location.

                Weather Equipment -

        Davis Vantage Pro2, Wired

       Lightening Detector

                Camera

     Logitech   Model Orbit AF

                Other Equipment-

       Archive - Buffalo  TeraStation  1TB  Model -  HD-H1.0TGL/R5   NAS.

                     UPS - APC 1300  XPS

SOFTWARE

      Virtual Weather Station  V13.01  

                       Davis weather link     

         NexStorm & StormVue

         ImageSalsa & MovieSalsa

        MS Office 2003 Pro  and  MS Front Page Pro 2003

      My specially modified version of MS XP Pro 

          MS Window Media Encoder 9

Computer

I put the computer together myself using:

                 Motherboard - MSI  PM8PM-V

                    Processor - Intel 3.2ghz,  800mhz front side bus,  socket 775 dual core

                             Video - ATI Radeon X1050

           DVD - LG LightScribe DVD R/RW

                   Memory - 2GB RAM  DDR  2x1GB

I use a MS Digital Media Pro KC-0405 keyboard, because I can program the extra keys to automate a lot of functions.

Other Items

             Folgers coffee - black, no cream, no sugar (coffee flavored coffee)

            Miller beer  (All of them.  In the can, so I crush them and impress my wife.)

           Clan McGregor scotch  (with cola).    (No web page available to direct you to)

Notes

I use ImageSalsa to capture the camera photos every 5 seconds and save the active photo every 2 minutes.  The 5 second photo is shown on the web page.  The 2 minute capture is used to create the weather video.  I use MovieSalsa Scheduler to create the weather movie update automatically every hour.

NexStorm is capturing the lightening screen shot every 3 minutes and these screen shots are used to create the lightening movie.  I had to change the default file type to .bmp.    MovieSalsa can not create the lighting movie automatically because NexStorm by default saves files as .PNG.    I would have to shutdown NexStorm to create the lightening movie.  It would be nice if MovieSalsa could use these file types.  

I then change the *.AVI files from MovieSalsa with Windows Video Encoder to convert them to *.wmv files to reduce the files size.   Unfortunately in the process I lose a lot of quality.