We have had a WeatherBug weather station at my workplace since long before I arrived. We were running an old Gateway E4200 running Win2K just to keep the station reporting data to WeatherBug. Recently they came and switched out the station… we now have a BlueBugBox - a box roughly the size of two trade paperbacks stacked atop one another. It’s blue (hence the name) and it replaces the PC that used to process the data and send it out to WeatherBug.
I can’t help but think that there must be a way to snatch that data and do something interesting with it…. Here is what I have come up with.
WeatherBug requires access tot he box on ports 80 tcp, and 9500 tcp. However if you point your browser to http://x.x.x.x/ you get nothing.
Port 8080 seems to be serving up an XML file of the current data coming from the box.
I know that I have seen a login screen( when the installer was here) so there must be a web interface to this box somewhere… I just don’t know what port it is on.
I am sure I can do something interesting with the XML data.
Posted on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:11:00 -0700 in
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