Raspberry-pi powered Weather Station

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Raspbery Pi Zero (<$10)

DHT11 Temp & Humidity Sensor ($5)

DHT22 Temp & Humidity Sensors ($10)

MCP3008 Analog Digital Converter Chip ($3.75)

'Hot-Wire' wind sensor ($17)

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If you have Linux experience, I reccomend using the 'Lite' Version of Rasbian. It has none of the default bloat installed, and does not even have a GUI unless you install one.

If you wish to go this route, there is a tool which can help you easily customize what to install.

After burning, make sure you do sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade if needed. (Detailed Instructions)

Make sure you have the latest version of raspbery pi firmware:

sudo apt-get install rpi-update && sudo rpi-update (Detailed Instructions)

Make sure you have all the python and webserver dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev python-mysqldb libapache2-mod-wsgi apache2 mysql-server htop

pip install sqlobject pytz psutil

Install the DHTXX Sensor library:

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I used apache, so if you want to use a different webserver, such as nginx, sorry, but your on your own.

There used to be two options available, but it was a mess, so I only support wsgi now, which runs very fast.

WSGIPythonPath "/var/www/html/" WSGIScriptAlias /status "/var/www/html/framework/http_status.wsgi" WSGIScriptAlias /reset_rain "/var/www/html/framework/http_reset_rain.wsgi"

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Open ./framework/settings.py and fill out the required settings, such as your API key & ZIP code.

Make any other changes you wish to make.

Open ./framework/sensors.py and make any changes needed to support your specific sensors. This should be easy if using similar sensors t one sI used, or it may require more work, depending on the specific sensors you have.