Homemade Weatherstation
- hacker
Goal
- Build standalone offgrid "weather station" to cabin
- Remote connection to station
- Power management
- Linux based control
- Prototype
- Current
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- description
- Weatherstation project
- started
- 2015-06-02
Power
- 3 cheap solar panels (bit owerkill to this project)
- 100Ah Battery
Arduino
- Always on
Controls relay which give power to linux-box (Arietta G25 or RaspberryPi
- If there is not enough juice in the batteries, just sleep and wait sun
- Simple debug switch to keep linux-box running
- Debug IO-pin between linux-box
- Voltage sensor for battery
- Shutdown IO-pin between linux box
- Linux -box can communicate when it is ready for shutdown
Linux-box
- Bunch of simple shell-scripts
- Collects samples
- Photo
- Temparatures
- Call home via SSH
- Upload samples via SSH