{"id":685,"date":"2016-12-28T10:45:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T23:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raoulwegat.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2023-09-05T07:39:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T07:39:55","slug":"weather-data-nerding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Weather data nerding"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s nice to know Santa takes orders, so this year I ordered a Fine Offset WH1080<\/a> weather station plus a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Beginners Kit<\/a>. It’s my first Pi, and my first venture into weather data, but I’d done plenty of research before hand to know that combining the two pieces of hardware with the weewx<\/a>\u00a0open source weather software would be relatively easy.<\/p>\n

Raspberry Pi plus the Fine Offset WH1080 Base Station.<\/p>\n

The reason I bought this particular model of weather station was primarily that it’s low cost. I picked mine up for $170 at my local Jaycar<\/a>. My Pi was purchased as a beginner kit which included the Pi, a power adapter, case and MicroSD preloaded with Raspbarian.\u00a0As the OS came with a GUI and I wanted the Pi to be headless, I ended up installing Raspbarian Jessie Lite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fine Offset WH1080 Weather Station in situ.<\/p>\n

There’s a few different open-source weather station software about, but I chose\u00a0weewx<\/a> because of it’s ability to skin your own reports. The default ones that come with it are plain ugly. Luckily I got a good starting point by finding Sofaskin<\/a>, a responsive\u00a0\u00a0skin based on Google’s Material Design.<\/p>\n

Weewx report with the Sofaskin and slightly modified charts.<\/p>\n

Next up is to dig into\u00a0into the weewx documentation<\/a> and create a new customized start screen for the report with just the info I want.<\/p>\n

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