by puterbonga
3 subcomments
- Every time someone does a project like this, it exposes how trivial “IoT” really is once you strip away vendor lock in and buzzwords. A $3 sensor, a 10 line script, and a 40 year old ham protocol outperform half the commercial weather APIs out there.
- 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.
- "If you want to support me, send me AA batteries" in the bot account profile made me chuckle.
by WaitWaitWha
0 subcomment
- Slightly tangential, my hope is that the Blitzortung project picks up momentum.
> Blitzortung.org and Lightningmaps.org are world-wide non-commercial low-cost community-based lightning detection and lightning location networks. They provide free real time lightning maps for a lot of count
[docs of the projects](https://docs.lightningmaps.org)
[real-time lightening map](https://map.blitzortung.org)
- I want to do the reverse: I have a DIY esp32 "weather" station (temp/humidity but more importantly particle sensor) and I would love to share it via radio!
by Sohcahtoa82
0 subcomment
- This reminds me...
My parents gave me a smart weather station for Christmas a few years ago. I never even took it out of the box. I know it exposes a web server so I can view a fancy UI in my browser...
I should take it out of the box and run a pentest on it. I imagine it's pretty insecure. The developers of these types of things often don't consider security.
by eternauta3k
1 subcomments
- Holy cow, cheap weather stations are encoding and decoding JSON? What a century.
by hyperbovine
0 subcomment
- What’s the best homebrew weather station out there? Currently I’ve got my eye on https://3dpaws.comet.ucar.edu/ but interested to hear about others.
- Been meaning to DIY a weather solution too...just need to figure out how to power it on balcony (no power). Thinking perhaps via the new sodium batteries & explore that too while at it.
- I was kinda expecting analogue tech and computer vision here. :D
Nice work.
- I was very grateful to the author for `aprs-weather-submit` while building cwop.rest. Great post.
by digitalsushi
1 subcomments
- my winter project is to create a container pod at home that remixes media, maybe adds in some old or joke tv commercials between shows, and most importantly, shows the weather and the route to work at 7am. i think everything exists to do this, but it might take a few weeks to cobble together.
- Cool project but I would just have used a zigbee/wifi weather station, they are just as cheap.
by defraudbah
0 subcomment
- this is one of the most fascinating and funniest articles i've read in a while
- I expected "putting something on the internet" to mean being to talk to a device directly, not taking its data and publishing it somewhere. Is it just me?
Hacker News