Open chrowe opened 9 years ago
This is an interesting use case to keep in mind because...
My gut feeling right now (while being aware that statements like this can blow scope out of the water) is that a Pipe can be both a Mote and/or a Gateway. We can develop Source/Thing/Sensor drivers (whatever we are calling those things) that pick up on wireless signals from a Mote and we can also develop Source/Thing/Sensor drivers that pick up on signals sent over serial/gpio/etc. Is there really a difference between a wireless device and a wired device? We will see I guess ;-).
Aside from the "What does this mean for OPK???" question, the http://www.weewx.com/ project has reverse engineered the wireless protocol of a ton of commercial weather stations. This would be amazing material for building OPK compatible drivers.
Wondering what it would take to build a DIY version of one of these http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/buyingguide.asp using a single pi and multiple sensors and then pipe the data to wunderground as the repository.
Getting on site weather data seems like it would be helpful since micro climates can differ from the closest weather station significantly.
Possible sensors