Hello BenO
It was a raspberry Shake? Love the low cost unit you had, so the intent was to have wind speed where there is a R1 or brain so we could track wind speed and direction,
Hello beno
So to add more components to a weather station, wind direction and a precip bucket, r/h, barometric pressure, what hardware and snap io would you use?
I have used the types @Beno is suggesting and they worked well with Snap PAC modules. They are fine for getting general information. Just not traceable to standards…
No. We don’t do weather stations.
You mentioned a Pi based weather station and I was wondering if it was that one.
Sounds like are you moving away from the idea of an Opot station?
Nope, not moving away from opto, it really needs to be on opto since the controllers are everywhere and i would need to take advantage of that, my weakness is in the programming of it, and in putting together the components the pi and others keep popping up, im surprised at the kick starter package, that is appealing due to the plug and play? If i read that right? And i dont have a 3d printer, do you have a code for a r1? For a weather station ?
Im moving on to more r1’s for more pump drives on the remaining and bringing in more data lines to the new sites, the. More sites and so on,
Our current wx station showed 32°f yesterday so the frustration continues, and its on some cloud services,
Most of the points you are mentioning, Wind Speed, Wind Direction, Temp and RH don’t require any real programming beyond configuring analog inputs. You just scale those instruments Ben mentioned above on your input channels and then the tags are available, for groov, PAC Display, Node Red or whatever else… Actually a lot easier than integrating a third party product or a pi.
Totally agree with Norm here Burt. It would be quicker, cleaner and more reliable to just hook the sensors to Opto.
Raspberry Pis are not farm rated at all. The reliability of that station is just not going to be there. Also there does not seem to be any clear way to get the data out of the Pi, so that will be a major issue with massive software tweaks required to the Pi.
Like Norm said, better to hook the sensors to the Opto and go from there.