I’ve had a personal weather station running at my QTH for about 6 years. Â For the last 5 or so it has been feeding the data to a Linux PC running various version of Ubuntu, and using a software package “Wview” to process the information. Â It created HTML pages, FTP’ed the files to my website, submitted data to the CWOP “Citizen Weather Observer Program”, and also submitted info the Weather Underground. Â A few of years ago I added a webcam to the system.
A couple of weeks ago I ordered a Raspberry Pi. Â I wanted to replace the full PC that was running 24/7/365 with something that used less power.
Though not a simple process, I was able to get it all running again on the Raspberry Pi, but I had an annoying problem that kept causing the data from the weather station from being read. Â Long story, but it is a known hardware issue that could be fixed in software, but I guess it hasn’t been a priority. Â Since it is free SW, I really can’t complain. Â It also is something that “might” be fixable within Linux, but requires more detailed knowledge that I could even find on Google.
So after some additional investigating, I found another program “Weewx”, that runs on Linux, and may be more immune to the problem and sounds like any workarounds required are simpler.
Again, after a fair amount of work, I was able to get Weewx up and running on my Raspberry Pi. Â As I contemplated making changes to web page templates to suit my preferences, I came across an available “skin”, that looked interesting. Â So I was off again trying to get it installed and configured to work properly. Â After some more effort, I finally have got the site back up and running.
I still have a little more work to do, but here is a link to the website:
Here is a link to the CWOP page for my station K2AS:
Here is the link for my Weather Underground page KNYONTAR2:
Here is my weather station equipment:
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