Using the raspberry pi as a weather station?

[Aregram]

Hello,
is it able to use the raspberry pi as a weather staion, which sends every 6 hours (or so) data through wlan to my pc. And is it also doable to charge it with solar energy directly, or do I have to charge a power bank first and then the raspberry pi? Will it also be able to hold up the night with only this energy?

Hope to find some answers in the forum, sincerly yours Aregram

[bubbl]

there is a useful tool out there on the internet called search engine. here's an example https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=raspb ... er+station

[xvzf]

Well, but that doesn't solve his second problem!

[bubbl]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=solar ... spberry+pi
First post. Sufficient to search the forum here.

[Aregram]

well, thank you ..

[bubbl]

sorry if I sounded mean, but it's good to explore the topic by yourself and ask in case of problems. It's also very useful skill to learn to search for answers. There are plenty of similar topics and projects on the vast, vast Net, waiting to be discovered :)

[gstreeter]

sorry if I sounded mean, but it's good to explore the topic by yourself and ask in case of problems. It's also very useful skill to learn to search for answers. There are plenty of similar topics and projects on the vast, vast Net, waiting to be discovered

Not mean but perhaps unnecessarily blunt given this is the Beginners forum and it's the users first post!

[bubbl]

sorry if I sounded mean, but it's good to explore the topic by yourself and ask in case of problems. It's also very useful skill to learn to search for answers. There are plenty of similar topics and projects on the vast, vast Net, waiting to be discovered

Not mean but perhaps unnecessarily blunt given this is the Beginners forum and it's the users first post!

right, but that doesn't give them absolution from using search engines and asking questions.

[DougieLawson]

is it able to use the raspberry pi as a weather station, which sends every 6 hours (or so) data through wlan to my pc.

That's very doable.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 37&t=60251
http://www.weather.dragontail.co.uk/

There's some folks using the MQTT pub/sub protocol to send data from a weather station to a consumer.
http://metaclaws.com/2013/04/29/publica ... sing_mqtt/
I'm a big fan of MQTT because it's just easy as a transport layer (it's a lot easier than http).

http://www.rainmanweather.com/site/cont ... ion-Online
Should give some hints on the hardware side of your project.

[DougieLawson]

Not mean but perhaps unnecessarily blunt given this is the Beginners forum and it's the users first post!

right, but that doesn't give them absolution from using search engines and asking questions.

I think you have to give a bit a latitude to the beginners. It could be seen as a little blunt to post a LMGTFY or RTFM. I'm guilty as charged but we should try to avoid scaring off the folks who are just getting started.

[henkg]

For using an rpi with a weather station I do not see the need of solar energy or a power bank. The weatherstation transmitter outside transmits data wirelessly to the base station inside. The basestation is usb connected to the rpi. The rpi is connected to the router and can get its power from mains.
Of course the weatherstation basestation must be able to commicate with a computer (pc; rpi). So check out brands and models.
About software: pywws (see dragontail link above) is only compatible with most Fine Offset models, weewx is compatible with more brands.

[gmc]

I'v put together a weather station that has temp, pressure, light, humidity, wind speed, uvi, rainfall, rel humidity and initial I uploaded the data to Cosm, then changed it to thingspeak. I've now just changed it to log to a internal MySQL database as I wasn't happy with thingpseak either. Data is uploaded every 5 mins, and from the above the heat index, chill factor, wind gust is calculated.

Its still very much a work in progress and have just added in a webcam

All the above sites are usefull, also have a look at http://airpi.es/

I pretty much used all of them and gathered code from all over the place - eventually putting all the modules together in C.

Fell free to look around my code:
https://github.com/StormTrooper/Raspber ... herStation

I'm not a programmer so it's probably not efficient code and there might be lots of better ways to do things, but it seems to work

I also need to update GitHub again but most of the modules are there.

I also looked at using a solar panel for charging a battery, but
1) The solar panels still are not that cheap
2) I'm in the UK where there is no sun for most of the day now - so solar will never work.