Subj : APRS Weather Stations? To : David Smith From : Barry Martin Date : Tue May 05 2020 10:45:00 Hi Dave! BM> Should you not receive an answer please be patient: the main poster here BM> is Daryl Stout and he is currently off-line; hopefully back soon. DS> Thats ok I'm a bit spacey in and out a lot myself. Every time I DS> sit down to my computer to browse the groups or tinker on the DS> board something pops up that catches my attention and my ADHD DS> kicks in! :) I hope your doing well been a while since we've DS> chatted! Has been -- just one of those "when the occasion arises". My ADHH takes the form of But Firsts: but first I have to do this.... And yes, there are all those interesting items beckoning one's interest! Not necessarily bad to be distracted, just does tend to make the primary project take longer. BM> If it is '1-wire' you might want to take a look at the Raspberry Pi BM> stuff on-line. There is a 1-wire option in the config settings and I BM> did a quick Google and ti is used for low-speed data like weather data. DS> I saw that 1-wire connection on the Raspberry Pi. I was wonderign DS> if that was the same technology as the old weather stations or DS> not. All my google searches came up empty though its like all the DS> old 1-wire stations just vanished so I haven't been able to find DS> anything about them. BM> The Raspberry Pi (RPi) is a starting at $35 computer about the size of a BM> deck of cards; starter kits can include the power supply, case, æSD BM> memory card, etc. and the RPi at around $100. Use your own keyboard and BM> mouse, connect to a HDMI monitor or composite video. There are multiple BM> Pi's out there; ask if questions. DS> I've got a Pi 3 that I used to use for the BBS. I pick it up DS> every now and then and tinker with it. Last usage I tried was to DS> set up a streaming media player but I didn't like that so I think DS> its sitting in a drawer somewhere now. :) Around here I tend to leave the Pi's that are working alone and fiddle with the spares; don't screw up what's working that way. And of course rather nice can pull the SD card and insert another and have a new blank slate, or a duplicate of the what's working so far! Has been a while since I played with a RPi Media Player -- think OMXPlayer - something close - and it required a couple of switches to display properly. DS> I did look at some different options for setting up a weather DS> station with the Pi. I think I saw a kit you could build your own DS> weather station but I wasn't sure how good (dependable and DS> accurate) it was. Then I still have to figure out the APRS part. DS> I can't remember what that mini-TNC kit was that I used back in DS> the day but it was a kit that you had to sauder together. My DS> saudering skills were terrible then. (Maybe a little better now DS> sice I spent some time saudering model train tracks but still not DS> so good!) I've got two soldering irons downstairs at the Electronics Workbench but right now don't recall the wattages - one is hotter than the other abnd more or less automatically pick which one dependant on what I'm soldering -- decades of hobbyist. "Trick" is heat the joint to be soldered and then apply the solder, sort of build upwards: the iron, then the joint, then the solder. The joint heats the solder, not the iron. On this end I'm not overly interested in building my own weather station but am looking for something to display local conditions and forecast; FWIW the DarkSky API (using currently here as part of the display) is and isn't working: as a current subscriber it will work through the end of 2021 but they are not accepting new APIs. I'm looking for a replacement as the end of 2021 is only a little over a year away and you know how looking stuff up one gets distracted!! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Politically Corrections: Drunk = Spatially Perplexed --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .