RHC - Weather Station

An open source self contained weather station for remote applications where wifi and power are not available.

Overview

The weather station is based around the Particle Cloud platform and the latest design uses the Particle.IO Boron LTE CAT-M1 development board for processing and connectivity. Additionaly a small arduino pro-mini is used as a watchdog to monitor system state and induce a restart if the the system is hung. This forces the Particle to reconnect and check in.

Wind observation are taken using a Davis Vantage Pro 6410 anemometer. Temperature, pressure, and humidify can be observed with a BPM280 or BME280 sensor.

Listener software running on a base unit (internet connected Particle Argon) or server application (nodejs) will monitor observations published to particle cloud from the weather station and post the parsed data to Weather Underground and Weather Flow. In the case of the server application we log obervations to a database that serves can be used to generate your own weather graphs without 3rd part services.

• Recommended BOM
• Assembly instructions
• RHC-Weatherstation-Listener Reciever applictaion written in NodeJS
• To-Do

Configuration

The weather station uses a configuration file system for easy customization:

1. Default settings are in config.h
2. An example configuration file config.local.h.example is provided
3. To customize settings:
   • Copy config.local.h.example to a new file named config.local.h
   • Edit config.local.h with your specific settings
   • Do not commit config.local.h to the repository (it's in .gitignore)

Example contents of config.local.h:

#define EVENT_NAME ("my_custom_event")
#define TIMEZONE (-8)  // Pacific Standard Time
#define USE_DST (1)    // Enable Daylight Saving Time
#define DST_OFFSET (1) // 1 hour offset for DST
#define DST_START_MONTH (3)  // March
#define DST_START_WEEK (2)   // Second week
#define DST_START_DOW (0)    // Sunday
#define DST_END_MONTH (11)   // November
#define DST_END_WEEK (1)     // First week
#define DST_END_DOW (0)      // Sunday
#define CNTS_TO_MPH (2.174)  // Conversion factor for the Mussel Rock Anemometer