Raspberry Pi: Weather Monitoring Project Outline and Resources

hi you're looking at my weather pie it's basically a weather system that I've built out of a raspberry pie I was asked the other day by a viewer to list some of my other videos and I just wanted to show here I am underneath my house and what I've done is I've mounted this just on a piece of PVC board like some of my other projects underneath the house and here you can see I've got my Raspberry Pi hooked up and this is just a really simple breadboard on that you can see this is the barometric pressure sensor this over here is my temperature and humidity sensor I remember the the names but it doesn't matter I'll list them all below and this cable here sorry this one just here is a temperature probe which runs over here up and into the house as you can see that just kind of pokes up to the corner of the house so as far as hardware goes that's pretty much it like I said to get this mounted underneath the house here in a dry area I haven't really haven't really had to worry too much about casing it or waterproofing it or shelleyan or anything it's just a really simple board setup anyways that's the hardware side I'll take you inside in a minute and show you the software well that's our inside now just having a quick look at the results of the board basically the information that that board is collecting I've turned into a website that I can access externally although here you can see I'm only doing it internally so it's not to give away my web address you can see here these are the different field that I'm actually collecting at any given time the time that the last reading was taken at the indoor temperature the outdoor temperature the relative humidity and the pressure and then take that data and I do a couple of little things in PHP the first is this thermometer here on the left that thermometer goes up and down depending on what the outdoor temperature says it is and you can see that current color of it that changes as the weather or rather as the temperature increases or decreases I do a couple other things with the data as well I take the pressure and set a couple of ranges so that I can guess what the current outside weather looks like based on the barometric pressure so at a thousand four point five nine hewlet hectopascals wait a sec it's some sort of Pascal reading I'll figure that out for sure what I do is I take that and I can guess that we have a few clouds so I write that out as data and I also show a graphic that that indicates that further down here you'll see that I've taken an open source graphing program which I believe is called flaunt I'll send a I'll put up a link to that as well in the section below with flock you can plot and what this is doing is looking over the last week at the different readings basically indoor and outdoor temperatures you can see the humidity is really crazy this time of year here in chittering in Auckland but also you can see that the pressure is gone up quite substantially recently and we're just starting to head back down so that's how I'm interpreting the data but I've also got a section here on the site where I've just left the raw data up so I can have a look oh you know last night it was really cold so I just thought I'd have a look a lot two in the morning actually it was 13 degrees inside the house in 13.5 degrees outside the house so it's about the same temperature in size as was outside it felt pretty cold also the humidity you can see was pretty high one last little trick I've done I've taken the current conditions and I've turned it into a sentence so you can see I've currently described this cool with underwater conditions it's a little bit cloudy it's pretty much always under water conditions in the middle of winter with relative humidity currently sitting in the upper 90s 98 percent humidity anyways that's the usable side of all the data gathering that we're doing let me show you some of the software side just a quick description in terms of the software what I'm doing in a theoretical sense first we'll start with my raspberry pi and that's attached to the weather board inside it I have a Python script which is taking that data from here and putting it into a MySQL database eventually I'll change it over to Maria DB but for now it's MySQL that MySQL database then feeds the PHP script which I'm running which shows off that that web site that I showed you so on the Raspberry Pi then I'm running a Python I'm running my SQL I'm also running an Apache server and PHP which my camera just just bet they missed but all of that chain as we go across like that is able to grab the data from here and then present it to the world in a readable form with the PHP so just before I go any further I just just want to say that the reality of this project and why I considered it a little bit easier simple and the reason I hadn't posted it until now is that most of the stuff that's happening on the weather board and most of the Python stuff is actually taken from the Adafruit website it's a great website a great place to learn about raspberry pies and pie and a lot of the devices that you can connect to the Raspberry Pi the the stuff for the weather board I bought on eBay because I live in New Zealand and it's just as easy to ship from there as it is from the Adafruit website but I pretty much follow the tutorials on how to get those devices working in Python from the Adafruit website Adafruit had the the data be put onto a Google page I didn't want that so I figured out how to use MySQL but unfortunately don't know they have a tutorial for that I can't really remember the steps and the last thing I want to do having been through it is try to retrace it in terms of taking the my SQL data and putting it onto PHP that again is the sort of thing that I think he can pretty much find on the internet with a quick Google search so I won't be going into too much of that deep into too much of that detail if you have any questions about how I set the Raspberry Pi board up or any of the parts and pieces that I used please ask below but remember to check the About section as I hope to be able to describe just about each piece how I got it what it does and how it's relevant for this project thanks very much I hope you enjoyed it please like comment I don't know post tech do anything you want share it with your friends feel it thanks very much

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Length: 8min 14sec (494 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 21 2013