Build yourself a weather station
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Build yourself a weather station
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#2I love this! Am super interested in building something like this.
IMO there is even more value if this is built with a central server in mind for each weather station constructed. A network of stations working together can begin to create their own hyperlocal weather network and could even be useful in small-scale, short-term predictions.
There are some startups that do a bigger version of this and for a long time I've been wanting to build a physical weather station network.
Super cool work.
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#3I already have a setup with a Raspberry PI so I’m only looking for a temperature sensor that:
- Is rain proof
- Transmits over BLE or WiFi
- Can be battery powered
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#4I already have a setup with a Raspberry PI so I’m only looking for a temperature sensor that: - Is rain proof - Transmits over BLE or WiFi - Can be battery powered
Take a look at the Mi Flora (Xiaomi product) device. Coin cell battery, ostensibly 12 mo battery life, good third-party packages/APIs.
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#5I love this! Am super interested in building something like this. IMO there is even more value if this is built with a central server in mind for each weather station constructed. A network of stations working together can begin to create their own hyperlocal weather network and could even be useful in small-scale, short-term predictions. There are some startups that do a bigger version of this and for a long time I'…
This sounds pretty neat. How many stations/ how big of area would be needed to make some predictions?
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#6A word of advice: double-check you're actually getting a BME280. I accidentally bought a BMP280 which lacks the humidity sensor. -_-
So yeah, I have something similar myself, with a React frontend on the official Raspberry Pi display, a BME680 (never got the IAQ stuff to work though) and InfluxDB + Grafana. No remote/outdoor modules yes, because I'm undecided about the technology.
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#7Built one a couple of month ago with bbc bit ... you have to dig around and I find it most challenging is to understand what those parameters meant. Still have to fix the rain. I thought wind is hard but programming there is no need to do much.
Moving to SQLite to ease analyse.
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#8There's some good projects out there for the ESP family that come with drivers for the most common sensors and interfaces to communicate with the most common IOT protocols, and all you have to do is "wire them up" via a web GUI, for example: https://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/index.php/ESPEasy
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#9Nice. I love weather station builds. Here is mine. I added a pm air quality sensor, a infrared rain sensor, some light sensors, a CO2 sensor, an accelerometer, and a loudness sensor. There's a spot for my Geiger counter too but that installation is not done yet.
https://partofthething.com/thoughts/weather-and-air-quality-...
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#10Does anyone know of any projects that allow you to do weather forecasting yourself at home? Of course it's going to be limited without a network of stations, but with measuring atmospheric pressure (and delta) should give you a pretty good indication of the local weather for the next few hours. Maybe you could tie into a receiver for satelite images.