Weather Station Question

[W6JHB]

Pretty much a beginner here - got an RPI a B+ a few months ago for my son. He's got other priorities now, so I'm tossing around ideas on what to use the little device for. Was thinking it might be a hoot to use it as a monitoring station for weather data at our home. Did quite a bit of Googling but am about burned out with that. My thinking was to have some sort of outside device that would send data (temp, humidity, barometric pressure, etc) to the RPI and have it accumulated and/or displayed. I have a web site and it would even be cool to send that data to my site for posting, but that may be a bit in the future.

Anyone have any suggestions on where to start on this? I can't spend a whole lot of money on this project, so I'm not opposed to a "roll your own" approach to some extent. I'm a retired programmer so dabbling in code is not a problem.

Thanks, Jim (W6JHB)

[B.Goode]

It is headlined as being a project for schools, but maybe there are ideas you could learn from here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/school-weath ... n-project/

[gordon77]

Worth a read

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... it=weather

[3corey2]

oooooohhhh

[markdoll01]

My Raspberry Pi B with two DHT22 sensors running Wordpress and I used HIghcharts for my weather station.
http://dustriders.homenet.org/temp/

[hampi]

Some I2C sensors and code here (there are other chips available too)

https://github.com/oh7bf/I2C-modular-co ... pters/wiki

I did a small system last Christmas where RPi web server was showing the data stored in local SQLite database using PHP scripts.