April 14, 2026April 16, 2026Programming, Uncategorized, Weather Instruments Weather Station Changes (Part 2) So now I’m hooked on Docker containers and I put together a Docker container stack with Eclipse Mosquitto, Node-RED, InfluxDB, and Grafana. […]
April 6, 2026April 14, 2026Electronics, Weather Instruments Another Oh-By-The-Way… It turns out that my original plan to have the lithium ion batteries, that were SUPPOSED to be charged by solar, didn’t […]
March 26, 2026April 14, 2026Electronics, Programming, Uncategorized More Weather Station Changes The code is working quite well; no real glitches so far (fingers crossed). I added a PCB Yagi antenna that I got […]
December 25, 2025April 14, 2026System Administration, UNIX and Linux This is pretty cool – UNIX V4 tape found Saw this recently in the ether: Precious Computer Age relic turns up in U storage room – @theU I used to be […]
June 13, 2025April 14, 2026MQTT, Node-Red, Weather Instruments The weather station is working quite well… finally! but I don’t want to jinx it. I have all the pieces working: rain gauge counter, anemometer, thermometer, hygrometer, barometric pressure, […]
March 30, 2025May 15, 2025Node-Red, NodeMCU, Programming, Weather Instruments AsyncMqttClient testing Another UPDATE: The AsyncMqttClient works pretty well; I think better than PubsubClient, which can only send a QoS (quality of service) level […]
March 27, 2025March 30, 2025NodeMCU, PlatformIO, Programming Another obstacle: Inaccurate timing or missing MQTT publishes Well, at least the hardware is figured out and I’m ALMOST done with the PCB using KiCAD and I will soon send […]
March 27, 2025March 27, 2025Electronics, Internet of Things, Node-Red, Weather Instruments Added garden temperature monitoring… I’ve finally added outside temperature monitoring for my garden deep bed using a Wemos D1 Mini I got some time ago. The […]
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, 2024April 14, 2026Node-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 […]