December 15, 2024December 18, 2024PlatformIO, Programming, Weather Instruments Well, I thought I was on the home stretch with the weather station… UPDATE. I found the reason for the below exception: I was using too much time in processing the software interrupt (ESP8266Interrupt library) […]
November 17, 2024December 19, 2024Node-Red, Programming, Weather Instruments MetOne Dashboard – so far Here is my Node-Red weather dashboard so far… still needs work. I want to add custom JavaScript widgets for wind speed and […]
October 28, 2024November 16, 2024Electronics, Programming, Weather Instruments Well, so far so good with this rats’ nest of jumpers.. …and I haven’t let the magic smoke out of any of the parts…so far. I’m getting caught up (read: side-tracked) with the […]
October 1, 2024October 1, 2024Internet of Things, Weather Instruments Well, another delay… This time, it’s WiFi range; I was trying to get voltage measurements from roof-mounted solar cells via a test rig in my […]
September 17, 2024September 18, 2024Weather Instruments My 1-Wire retrofit for the rain gauge works now… It works now that I resoldered the pin on the BAT54S diode (pointed to with pencil), so the backup battery actually connects […]
September 4, 2024October 18, 2024Electronics, Weather Instruments Rain gauge retrofit ALMOST done…but.. So here is a picture of my ALMOST finished rain gauge 1-wire counter refit. It works great EXCEPT the coin cell is […]
August 27, 2024August 27, 2024Programming, Weather Instruments Another Perplexing Temporary Issue and Delay During testing of a new modification I added, MOSFET power control to bring down the weather station standby current, everything was looking […]
June 26, 2024June 26, 2024Electronics, Weather Instruments Fixed the “magnet too weak” issue with angle sensor I replaced the magnet and now it works great. Apparently, the break in the ring magnet was enough to make magnetic field […]
May 28, 2024May 30, 2024Electronics, Uncategorized, Weather Instruments Success with the SMT soldering, but now another issue… This One ring does not rule them all. 🙁 The connections are all good now on the angle sensor PCB but during […]
May 25, 2024August 17, 2024Electronics, Uncategorized Guess I still need SMT soldering practice :-( Apparently, I need to practice more on my SMT soldering skills. I connected up the new angle sensor PCB to the weather […]