Putting a dumb weather station on the internet

puterbonga an hour ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	XorNot 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There's a magical world out there where Tuya leave us with the ability to OTA flash custom firmware of we have physical access, and then we can all just run ESPHome on private wifi networks.

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Thev00d00 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"If you want to support me, send me AA batteries" in the bot account profile made me chuckle.

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eternauta3k 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Holy cow, cheap weather stations are encoding and decoding JSON? What a century.

	▲	mungoman2 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, the tool rtl_433 repackages payload data in json for easier downstream consumption.

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dn3500 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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the_gipsy 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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!

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defraudbah an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this is one of the most fascinating and funniest articles i've read in a while

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brna-2 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was kinda expecting analogue tech and computer vision here. :D Nice work.

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phito 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cool project but I would just have used a zigbee/wifi weather station, they are just as cheap.

	▲	3D30497420 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I get the sense from the article that part of the fun was doing this via radio frequencies rather than having to deal with a network. > At this point, we've connected the Temu weather station to the Internet and the ham radio network. Anyone with an APRS-enabled radio, digipeater, receiver, or just a web browser can see what the temperature and humidity are at my house.

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Tepix 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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?

	▲	IAmBroom 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes.