Putting a dumb weather station on the internet
(colincogle.name)59 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago
59 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago
Holy cow, cheap weather stations are encoding and decoding JSON? What a century.
You might consider joining the Citizen Weather Observer Program. It's a great way to share your data with other station owners.
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.
this is one of the most fascinating and funniest articles i've read in a while
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.
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.