Rasp Pi crash causes outage

Well, I had a Raspberry Pi crash on me earlier today. It happened to be the one serving as a data bridge for my new weather station. This $35 computer's single purpose is to take data from the station and upload it to the Internet. Unfortunately, the boot partition on the system's SD card suddenly corrupted on me. It took a little work, but I was able to install a new OS and we are back in business!

I am now, once again, uploading data to several weather sites including: Weather Underground (KTXHENDE9), WeatherCloud (cool new site), WeatherBug and the Citizens' Weather Program (via Amateur Radio). There is also this cool display.

The whole process has been a fun experience, especially learning the ins and outs of weewx, the program that handles the weather data. It's a native Linux program and runs very well, even on a relatively old RasPi B+.

For those interested, you can view the raw APRS packets sent here as well as a nice table of weather data here.

New Weather Station Online

After a couple of failed starts, I've finally got a new weather station up and running. The station itself is an AcuRite 2064 with a 5-in-1 Sensor Combo, located just outside my office window.

I run Linux on my office computer and don't keep it on all the time, so I decided I wanted a dedicated system to maintain the station data. So, I spent some time trying to get an older Raspberry Pi computer up and running with weewx to accept the data and upload it to the internet. Finally got it working and the data is now uploading to findu.com (via APRS-IS) as well as WeatherUnderground.

Coincidentally, we've had some storms and rain come through today, it's already getting a work out!

Here's a link to the Weather Underground site and a link to the APRS site.