WeatherSnoop with Indigo and Oregon Scientific RMS300

WeatherSnoop integrates Oregon Scientific RMS300 Temperature and Humidity sensors into Perceptive Automation's Indigo home control system on a Mac running OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard. Previously VMware was required to run the Oregon Scientific native app to collect the data. WeatherSnoop eliminates the need for VMware. WeatherSnoop is a simple program that makes the sensor data available to AppleScript. A Time/Date Action is used in Indigo to collect the Oregon Scientific sensor data from WeatherSnoop on a 5 minute schedule and store the data into Indigo variables and into RRDtool for historical access and graphing.

WeatherSnoop does cost $20 US and its worth it. WeatherSnoop does not list the Oregon Scientific RMS-300 as an option but it works. Selecting WMR100 works fine.

Note that a simple C program for Linux and Mac OS X exists now. It can be downloaded here. Thanks to a commenter on an earlier post for the tip.