eltakoMS parses and logs the RS485 serial datastream of the Eltako Multisensor weather sensor (temperature, direct sunlight from 3 directions, dawning, obscurity, wind, rain). A datasheet can be found on http://www.eltako.com/dwl/Multisensor%20MS_4801_internet_gb.pdf . Incoming datagrams W+07.6016300N99901.2N?151515151515?1889 are converted to a more human readable format and get timestamped 2008-04-03 17:03:20 t+07.6s01w63e00od999v01.2r t[+-]\d\d\.\d : Temperature; degree celsius s\d\d : sunlight from South; 00 to 99 w\d\d : sunlight from West; 00 to 99 e\d\d : sunlight from East; 00 to 99 [oO] : Obscurity; uppercase when pitch black d\d\d\d : Dawning; from 000 (dark) to 999 (bright) v\d\d\.\d : Velocity of wind; meter per second [rR] : Rain; uppercase when raining It also writes the current data to a file in /dev/shm/ for easy pickup by other programs like an snmp-agent or rrdtool. This software is copyright 2008 by Frank Sautter (eltakoms~at~sautter~dot~com) This software is based on the quante.c serial logging software copyright 1996 by Harald Milz (ht~at~seneca~dot~muc~dot~de) This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.