{"id":49,"date":"2024-06-19T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/overdespotiet.dk\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2024-06-19T13:35:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:35:42","slug":"remote-weather-sensing-geek-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/overdespotiet.dk\/blog\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Remote weather sensing &#8212; geek style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So: A family member sort of mentioned a desire to monitor the weather a at undisclosed secure location some 100+km from where he lives&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Several manufacturers offer solutions to this, but they are either 1) expensive, 2) unelegant or 3) both. And the geek-factor in choosing that route is very low&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since I was a wee kid I&#8217;ve always had a certain affinity for electronics, but in the later years everything has become so complicated with all this integrated circuits stuff, multilayer PCB&#8217;s and computers and such&#8230; Not easy for a simple CS graduate to deal with&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Actually yes! What a perfect opportunity to buy some <a title=\"Arduino\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arduino gear<\/a>! Long since I had bookmarked the <a title=\"Arduino Weather Station\" href=\"http:\/\/www.practicalarduino.com\/projects\/weather-station-receiver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arduino Weather Station<\/a> project homepage and now figured that would be an excellent starting point.<\/p>\n<p>So into the shopping basket went:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An <a title=\"EtherTen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freetronics.com\/collections\/all-products\/products\/etherten\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EtherTen<\/a> board. <a title=\"LiPoly.de\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lipoly.de\/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=880_2651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LiPoly.de<\/a> stocks the FreeTronics range in EU<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freetronics.com\/collections\/shields\/products\/receiver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">433MHz receiver<\/a> shield.<\/li>\n<li>An assortment of LaCrosse weather sensors, mostly matching the <a title=\"WS3255\" href=\"http:\/\/en.lacrossetechnology.fr\/P-5-A1-WS2355.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WS2355 package<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Time for a quick timeout here perhaps&#8230; What can I contribute to the Arduino weather scene that Jonathan and Hugh hasn&#8217;t already? Good question &#8211; it is certainly not on the electronics side! However, being a CS type geek, I figured I could improve on the software development and architecture side &#8211; and thus I invite you to visit me on GitHub to have a look-see \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hejre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So: A family member sort of mentioned a desire to monitor the weather a at undisclosed secure location some 100+km from where he lives&#8230; Several manufacturers offer solutions to this, but they are either 1) expensive, 2) unelegant or 3) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/overdespotiet.dk\/blog\/?p=49\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arduino","category-coding","category-electronics","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/overdespotiet.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/overdespotiet.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/overdespotiet.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overdespotiet.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overdespotiet.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/overdespotiet.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/overdespotiet.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/overdespotiet.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overdespotiet.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overdespotiet.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}