USING SITEPLAYER TO GET YOUR DATA ON THE WEB

This example is of my remote monitor used with the farms wood fired hot water boiler.
With it, we can keep tabs on the temperatures from almost anywhere via Internet and know right away if there are any problems.
The temperatures displayed on the web page are taken from a wireless monitoring system already in place.
A PIC 16F873 and a Linx RF receiver module eavesdrop on the signals and update the web page once per minute.		 I used Siteplayer to put my personal weather station on the web. Now my friends and family can check on the weather here from almost anywhere in the world.
I like the indoor temperature to reassure me the furnace is OK.
The weather station uses a PIC 16F873 to collect the weather sensor data and displays it live on a 2x16 LCD screen. It also has a serial output that the Siteplayer interface is connected to and receives updated conditions every minute.
The Interface
To download PDF schematic click here

The Siteplayer module, documents, examples and network jack/transformers are available here.

To download the SitePlayer file package (3.1 Mb) click here.

 This is a serial interface board that I built which lets the Siteplayer communicate with the data source. It contains the DC voltage regulation circuitry as well as an interface that allows it to send and receive RS232 serial data.

I've also built a SitePlayer based servo controller that is operated from a web page.

SitePlayer servo
There are a lot of resources available on the web for Siteplayer users.
Yahoo Groups has a Siteplayer group that I can personally attest for. They're a great bunch who are always willing to lend their expertise to a newcomer.
The SitePlayer documentation is pretty good and they even have a free emulator called SitePlayer PC that you can run on a computer and try out your code.
It's a handy tool to evaluate the SitePlayer before you buy one.		 The web page itself is created like any other HTML code. In addition, there's definition files that tell the SitePlayer about the kind of data it will be handling and assigns names that are used to pass info to and from the web page.
The main limitation is size - the page and all other associated files cannot exceed a total of 50k.

More info: webmaster

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This page was updated 10-09-2010