That is interesting, I have two of them, one I use for demo's and to setup for data captures in places where I might want a bit of data on a location, and the other is just here at the house. The demo one lost the console the other day, and I am trying to figure out what did it perhaps it was too much 440 Mhz RF from my Icom radio... I will have to check that out.
So are you using the sensor head and just decoding the packets as they are sent? If so that is interesting because I am going to get the bad console re- placed but I have been thinking about trying to decode the data direct from the sensor head as I have a location I want to set one up but it is remote and there is really not much need for the console if there is a way to capture the data off of the sensor head and use it that way. Are you still using the RTL_433 as the radio? On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:38 PM, <ja...@bertelson.me> wrote: > On 2016-12-29 21:06, Chuck Hast wrote: > > I use something called WeeWx, www.weewx.com for grabbing WX data off > > of sensors, it is written in python and in fact the fellow that wrote > > it I > > believe > > lives in the gorge somewhere. > > > > James are you using WeeWX? > > > > My station data can be seen on WU, APRS and CWOP. > > > > It can capture data from a whole bunch of sensors. You are probably > > well off > > to get the I2C based sensors, from what I can see you can get those at > > a > > good price and use the I2C bus to talk to them. I believe you can > > string a > > bunch of them on that bus as I believe that they are addressed. > > > > I have not worked with it yet, but I have started to look at it for > > some > > other > > applications (cooler and freezer temps for food safety). > > > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 7:37 PM, <ja...@bertelson.me> wrote: > > > >> On 2016-12-29 19:26, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > >> > I'm trying to use it with my shiny new Raspberry Pi 3 2016 model B. > >> > I'm running Debian Jessie, but it's called Raspbian. Does anyone > >> > know if a different driver is available for version 25.6 > >> > of the thermometer? There is version 1.4, a driver exists for > >> > that. Unfortunately, there are so many temper usb thermometers > >> > that require different software. I'm curious if the Raspberry > >> > Pi can run apache and post temperature information to a web site? > >> > How many thermometers can I hook up to the Raspberry Pi > >> > simultaneously? I don't have just power to think about, I have > >> > to think about how much data the Raspberry Pi can deal with. > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > PLUG mailing list > >> > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > >> > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >> > >> The Pi 3 is a powerful little guy, really. I've got one running > >> BitTorrent Sync as a personal cloud, a Minecraft server, an RTLSDR > >> that > >> recieves data from a weather station and posts it to wunderground, > >> Samba > >> to share a 2TB drive attached to USB over my network, an openvpn > >> server, > >> a TOR wifi access point, and nginx (instead of Apache) all at the same > >> time. > >> > >> That said, rather than fight with drivers, I'd suggest it will > >> probably > >> be easier to use a 3 wire temp sensor. They can be had for a buck or > >> two, and plug into the I/O pins on the pi easily enough. Adafruit has > >> sample code for most/all the sensors they sell, so that might be a > >> good > >> start. > >> > >> -- > >> James Bertelson > >> ja...@bertelson.me > >> :wq > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PLUG mailing list > >> PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >> > > At one point I used weewx with the acurite driver, but then the USB base > that came with station went out (turns out it's super sensitive to RF > and having it next to my HF rig blew it right out.) I tried to continue > using weewx, but had trouble getting the output from rtl_433 into > something it could consume. Found it to be easier to just setup a > cron'ed script that grabs the latest updates from a sqlite database and > push it to wunderground's API. > > I keep meaning to post the whole thing to github, but I need to clean it > up a bit first (and strip out credentials, etc.) > > Also, +1 to the i2c recommendation. My baro pressure sensor uses i2c, > and it was pretty easy to set up. It also happens to have a temp sensor > in it so I can log indoor temps, too. > > 73s de k7nrd > > -- > James Bertelson > ja...@bertelson.me > :wq > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug