This is how I updated my weather station with Raspberry Pi, the template Meteotemplate<\/a> and open source software WeeWx<\/a><\/p>\n I have a weather station Davis Vantage Pro2<\/strong> I've been using it for quite a few years (at least 10) and the truth is that I've neglected it quite a lot; it's a real shame because it's a good station but I haven't taken much advantage of it.<\/p>\n For several years it had stopped working at night, due to a problem with its solar power supply, which I just fixed a few days ago, and it was isolated from the world (no connection with my home automation system<\/a> and without publishing data on the internet).<\/p>\n I have recently decided to put it to use again, contributing the data it generates to the community (publishing it on sites such as WeatherUnderground<\/a> y Meteoclimatic<\/a>) and publish them on my website. I have solved the problem of it not working at night (by replacing a super capacitor) and giving it a little cleaning.<\/p>\n Years ago I used to use Windows software that ran permanently on a PC, connected to the console via a serial port, which saved data and generated a series of web pages that I uploaded, every few minutes, to an external server for viewing on the internet.<\/p>\n In this new reincarnation of the weather station, although I still have several PCs at home running 24\u00d77, I have decided to use one of the existing modern programs that run on a Raspberry PI<\/a>. This allows me to make the system completely independent and ensures that the data is stored and uploaded to the internet permanently and without any interruption.<\/p>\n The first task was to look for the software, and after a lot of reading about the different programs and seeing other stations using them, I decided on WeeWx. This program, written in Phyton, has a number of advantages that make it ideal:<\/p>\n That said and done, I have taken the oldest raspberry I had at home, as it needs very little power (a Raspberry 1 Model with only 512Mb of memory), and I have prepared a new SD card with the latest version of raspbian.<\/p>\n After a little while of configuration, it was up and running and uploading data to my website:\u00a0https:\/\/emariete.com\/estacion-meteorologica-madrid-espana\/<\/a><\/p>\nWeather station hardware<\/h3>\n
New WeeWx software<\/h3>\n
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New Raspberry Pi hardware<\/h3>\n