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This is short tutorial how to send data from sensor connected to The Things Network via LoRaWAN to Weather Underground. I will use Scidrom air quality sensor whic I developed for students in local school. Just a quick reminder the “AQ” sensor detects PM10, PM2,5 particles, air pressure, temperature and humidity and solar radiation in visible in UV spectrum. More details are available in older post.
I recently set up a APRS gateway. Check instructions in older posts. In the script pymultimonaprs you can set weather when set in a json-file. eg: “weather”: “/path/to/weather.json”. I live next to the automated weather station for our city. Instead of building own WX I decided to use the data from this nearby station. The data is provided in XML from our national agency ARSO. The data is available for some major cities in Europe, too.
Main idea was to prepare PHP script to parse the XML data and prepare text file, which is acceptable for pymultimonaprs. Next step is to wget this text from some server and copy it to the raspberry pi with cron job.
This page will give you an example how to:
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This is part two (here is part one) of the tutorial how to use Raspberry-Pi in APRS gateway.
In part one I explain how to install OS for Raspberry Pi and get RTL dongle up and running, which enables radio reception and listening received signal with FM demodulator on audio jack (simple FM receiver). For next steps you will need HAM licence with own call sign. Mine is S54MTB.
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I have couple of raspberry pi’s laying around doing nothing useful. I decided it’s time to use it better than dust collectors. This tutorial is placed here for reference for any OM who would like to setup APRS Rx only node based on R.pi. Here’s what you’ll need (hardware):
… and software:
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