Ok I'm interested...

[Lv2hack]

Do you have any photos/video of the end result? I'd love to see what this looks like in color.

[fowlerk]

If you'll give me a couple of days, I'll try to post some.

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018, 10:42 AM Alex T notifications@github.com wrote:

Do you have any photos/video of the end result? I'd love to see what this looks like in color.

[glown]

Your enhancements are wicked cool.

Could you also include photos of the new wiring setup?. Your description is very clear, but seeing the result helps me reduce the amount of mistakes I made. I can read where a cap should go, but I'm really good to go if I can see where it should go too.

Also, have you thought about using Bodmers TFT-eSPI library? It seems like a great library with a big performance boost, and the library supports a lot of displays (I have an esp8266 driving a 480x320 raspberry pi display). He's also responsive to issues and is still active in the library.

[fowlerk]

Thanks @glown! I’m glad you like them...

I’m way behind in adding photos to this project. I’d promised @atatistcheff that I would post some of the various displays two months ago and still haven’t gotten to it. Regarding the wiring, I have plans to build another in the next 2-3 weeks for a friend, and as I do I’ll try to take some photos of the build. It’s not easy to see all of the wiring connections in photos, but I’ll at least attempt to show how I added the capacitor.

I have looked at Bodmers library several times and had plans to test it, but for this project the display times are plenty fast enough for me so I never converted to it. I may test that still at a later date though. First, I have intentions of trying to get back to @squix78’s Weather library (or at least a closer clone), since it now supports OpenWeather vs. Weather Underground. I’ll lose some of the forecast data in the process (3 days vs. 10), but I don’t see a good alternative.

@atatistcheff, I’ve captured some photos to add to this repository and will try to find some time this weekend to get that done. Apologies for the delay...

[mpo881]

Great project and thank you! Has there been any progress on the switch to Open Weather since Weather Underground no longer supports free API keys? Thanks in advance

[fowlerk]

Sadly, not yet @mpo881...still on the radar, but life and other projects have been in the way. I have a target of putting one of these together for a Christmas gift for a friend who asked about it, and will take a look a trying to move to OpenWeather’s API then. Still not happy about losing forecast data, but maybe I’ll find another solution for that issue.

[mpo881]

Thank you for your reply and I understand. I too was attempting to make something like this for Christmas gifts. Ill keep watching and hopefully you find the time! Thank you

[cbytes1]

@fowlerk, Keep up the good work. I second the comments that @mpo881 made.

[fowlerk]

@cbytes1 @mpo881 @glown I’ve posted a new version with conversion for Open Weather Map...it’s a rush job, but it should work as a fallback as the Weather Underground API keys are expired at year-end...further details in the README.

https://github.com/fowlerk/ESP8266-Color-Weather-Station-v17

[mpo881]

@fowlerk Thanks very much for your efforts! I appreciate the message to alert me to your work. I have gone over your README and hope to get something together before the holidays! Tick, tock. Anyway, thanks again and Merry Christmas

[fowlerk]

@mpo881 You’re welcome...let me know how it goes please. Like I said in the README, it’s a rush job and I’m sure you’ll find a bug or two. It’s running for me okay for now, though I did notice a weird bug yesterday after I posted when I changed APs through the configuration portal. Not sure what’s happening yet, and I don’t have much time to troubleshoot before the holidays... Merry Christmas to you and yours also!

[mpo881]

@fowlerk I certainly will. I hope to get one together by the weekend.Thank you

[fowlerk]

I made a minor change to the code to replace soft resets with hard restarts (ESP.restart) after configuration; this seems to have taken care of the issue I was seeing with corrupt WiFi settings after changing the AP on the configuration portal. Also, I've noticed my build is resetting randomly every few hours, and tracked this down to the call to OpenWeatherMap to update the forecast timing out...squix78's Weather Station library times out the HTTP calls after 10 seconds and does a restart if this occurs. Just be aware; it should recover fine though a bit quirky.

[mpo881]

Noted Thank you