WeatherStation

Read weather instruments and push data to Weather Underground

Overview

To be written. (Sorry)

Dependencies

Hardware

• Adafruit BME280 sensor breakout
• Waterproof DS18B20 temperature sensor
• SparkFun Weather Instruments
• Adafruit ADS1115 16-bit ADC
• Raspberry Pi 3 B+ or newer
• (Optional) Raspberry Pi Camera
• (Optional) 2m Raspberry Pi Camera Cable
• Mounting hardware appropriate for your installation

Software

• Patched Raspbian
• Python 3.7
• pip3
• Adafruit Blinka
• Adafruit ADS1x15 CircuitPython library
• Adafruit BME28 CircuitPython library
• urllib
• w1thermsensor
• RPi.GPIO
• Weather Underground account

Setup

Run these commands to install the correct libraries:

  pip3 install adafruit_GPIO
  pip3 install adafruit_blinka
  pip3 install adafruit_circuitpython_BME280
  pip3 install Adafruit_CircuitPython_ADS1x15

Setup to run wetherstation.py and re-starting it if it crashes for some reason. Edit the secrets.py file like

  secrets = {
    'WUuser' : 'CHANGE TO YOUR WU USER ID',
    'WUpass' : 'CHANGE TO YOUR WU PASSWORD',
    'WUstation' : 'YOUR STATION ID',
    'sensorLat' : deicmal degrees latitude of the station,
    'sensorLon' : decimal degrees longitude of the station,
    'sensorMGRS' : ;
    'Military Grid Reference System coordinates (unused)',
    }

Watch the output to be sure the data collection is working and the authentication to Weather Underground is working, too.