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Title: New Raspberry Pi Weather Station and Server
Post by: wuthton on January 28, 2013, 03:22:55 PM

After a frozen and snowy week of being stuck indoors I have put my weather station online at www.mattbeardsworth.co.uk (http://www.mattbeardsworth.co.uk)

The weather station is the Maplin's £60 touch sceen, connected to a Raspberry Pi running Jim Easterbrook's excellent Pywws. The Pi is also the server for the website, I used Lighttpd rather than Apache to keep it easy on the Raspberry Pi's limited resources.

Overall I'm very pleased with the setup, one Raspberry Pi ~5W and one powered usb hub ~5W (which also powers the touch screen, no batteries) making 10 watts for a full weather station and web server.

Many thanks to Jacques for the template which gives the site a much more professional look than I am capable of.

Matt.

Title: Re: New Raspberry Pi Weather Station and Server
Post by: Mr.Meteo on January 28, 2013, 05:14:23 PM

Hi Matt,
Very interesting results with this little marvel!  ^-^

I was pretty tempted by this project, but my wife
found that 3 Pc, 2 routeurs, 2 stations is enough! No way for a 3rd station!  >:D

Bravo! Pretty project!

Regards,
Jacques

Title: Re: New Raspberry Pi Weather Station and Server
Post by: jlfenton65 on February 02, 2013, 05:40:42 PM

I love how you used a Raspberry Pi for this.  :)

I used the same template for my new weather station... it's currently the only pywws template, so that's not too surprising. I also positioned my moon-phase like you did - I saw it on your page and just had to copy it... hope you aren't mad.  :-X

Title: Re: New Raspberry Pi Weather Station and Server
Post by: wuthton on February 06, 2013, 09:04:08 AM

My apologies to anybody has failed to look at my site over the past couple of days, I've been having some broadband connection problems which have now been fixed.

Quote from: jlfenton65 on February 02, 2013, 05:40:42 PM

I love how you used a Raspberry Pi for this.  :)

I used the same template for my new weather station... it's currently the only pywws template, so that's not too surprising. I also positioned my moon-phase like you did - I saw it on your page and just had to copy it... hope you aren't mad.  :-X

You're welcome to the moonphase idea, I had a look at your site which made me think that I must knuckle down this weekend and adjust the scales on my plots to a more suitable level. Very nicely done.

Matt.

Title: Re: New Raspberry Pi Weather Station and Server
Post by: derryweather on February 06, 2013, 06:38:03 PM

Bloody brilliant Matt using the Raspberry Pi! Gives me an awesome excuse to now go and purchase one :D

Title: Re: New Raspberry Pi Weather Station and Server
Post by: wuthton on February 15, 2013, 12:27:07 PM

Unfortunately the Raspberry Pi appears to have died, well the usb connection has packed in. I'll be up and running again next week.

Matt.