Station | Ambient Osprey |
Particulate counter | AM25 particulate detector |
Lightning | SwitchDoc lightning detector |
WeeWX version | 5.1.0 |
This website is automatically updated every 16 seconds from the weather station located on Kramer Hill, Cabin area 3, Lake Tschida. A Raspberry Pi 4 running RTL-433 with a RTL-SDR Blog V3 software defined radio attached which captures the 915 Mhz signal from the weather station. From there, WeeWX processes the data and archives it in a SQLLite3 database, as well as building this web page and uploading data to the cloud.
The Ambient Osprey collects the following data:- Temperature
- Humidity
- Wind speed
- Wind Guests
- Wind direction
- Rainfall
- UV
- Solar radiation
- Barometric Pressure
- Airborne Particulate
- US Forest Service Wildfire index - Fire Risk
- US Bureau of Reclamation - Water level/Dam stats
- Windy.com - Radar
- DarkSky.net - Forecast
The weather station contributes data to the following sites:
- PWS on Windy.com
- KNDNORTH2 on Weather Underground
- E8484 on FindU/CWOP
- 16112 on AWEKAS
- TSCHIDA on PWSWeather.com
- Lake Tschida on WOW (Met Office - UK)
- IP Observer on AmbientWeather.net
Software used:
- weewx weather station software
- HighCharts for the various charts on the website
- The Belchertown skin theme built for weewx
- MQTT as the broker for instant data transfer from weather station to website