Putting a Dumb Weather Station on the Internet

https://colincogle.name/blog/byo-weather-station/

33•todsacerdoti•5d ago

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brna-2•2h ago

I was kinda expecting analogue tech and computer vision here. :D Nice work.

Thev00d00•1h ago

"If you want to support me, send me AA batteries" in the bot account profile made me chuckle.

eternauta3k•1h ago

Holy cow, cheap weather stations are encoding and decoding JSON? What a century.

mungoman2•1h ago

No, the tool rtl_433 repackages payload data in json for easier downstream consumption.

dn3500•1h ago

You might consider joining the Citizen Weather Observer Program. It's a great way to share your data with other station owners.

http://www.wxqa.com/

I had a station for a few years. The receiver had a usb interface so no software radio required. I used weewx to import the data. I even had a water temperature sensor off the end of my dock so I could see if the lake was warm enough to swim in.

phito•1h ago

Cool project but I would just have used a zigbee/wifi weather station, they are just as cheap.

3D30497420•30m ago

I get the sense from the article that part of the fun was doing this via radio frequencies rather than having to deal with a network.

> At this point, we've connected the Temu weather station to the Internet and the ham radio network. Anyone with an APRS-enabled radio, digipeater, receiver, or just a web browser can see what the temperature and humidity are at my house.