PWS

Description

Connect your Personal Weather Station (PWS). Display your PWS data (or another PWS frow wunderground) and many other weather / pollution data on your desktop with a nice widget.

Steps

• get a PWS -> connect it to a linux machine (PWS gateway)

Gateway in ./pws_gateway/ sends :

• outdoor data to http://www.wunderground.com/

Indoor data get from PWS or some other sensors must be saved to an influxdb.

• display your pws data ./pws_client

• fill all personal info in ./pws_params.sh

PWS gateway - results

Here are your pws page on wunderground :

pws_client - results

configuration

Set needed parameters in :

your_folder/pws/pws_params.sh

Enable pws_service :

sudo ln -s your_folder/pws/pws_client/pws.service /etc/systemd/system
sudo systemctl enable pws
sudo systemctl start pws

To get pws logs :

journalctl -u pws -f

Start user pws widget (either using systemd user units, or using automatic application startup):

bash -c "sleep 3 && your_folder/pws/pws_client/start_conky.sh > /tmp/pws_widget.log"

results

Here is result in xfce :

References

• http://blog.vermot.net/2013/01/14/raspberrypi-utilisation-dopen2300-pour-les-stations-meteo-la-crosse-technology/
• http://letchap.github.io/2013/07/08/afficher-la-meteo-avec-conky-et-python-1ere-partie/
• Icon glossary - http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs?d=resources/phrase-glossary
• https://github.com/bacpluszero/pioupiou-v0