In April 2008 I bought an electronic weather station. It’s branded “Elecsa AstroTouch 6975”, but a brief web search showed that it’s functionally identical to several other brands, such as Watson W-8681 or WH-1080PC / WH1080 (the WH1081 is similar, but doesn’t have a radio controlled clock). One thing that sets these apart from other … Read more
Last 24 hours | last 7 days | last 28 days Amateur weather station readings at Stoneleigh, near Epsom, UK (N51.36 W0.25). No accuracy is claimed for this data. Use at your own risk. Data is logged and graphs are drawn by pywws software on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Linux. Notes on the measurements … Read more
I recently bought my first Raspberry Pi Zero W, a tiny little computer just 3 inches long and 1½ inches wide (in its case). I intend eventually to get it working with pywws (some weather station software I wrote a while ago) and I’ll be adding to this blog post as I go along, to … Read more
Last 7 days | last 28 days | since records began Recent amateur weather station readings at Stoneleigh, near Epsom, UK (N51.36 W0.25). No accuracy is claimed for this data. The dew point calculation is not valid for temperatures below freezing and the wind measurements are almost useless. Use at your own risk. Data is … Read more
Last 24 hours | last 7 days | since records began Recent amateur weather station readings at Stoneleigh, near Epsom, UK (N51.36 W0.25). No accuracy is claimed for this data. The dew point calculation is not valid for temperatures below freezing and the wind measurements are almost useless. Use at your own risk. Data is … Read more
Last 24 hours | last 28 days | since records began Recent amateur weather station readings at Stoneleigh, near Epsom, UK (N51.36 W0.25). No accuracy is claimed for this data. The dew point calculation is not valid for temperatures below freezing and the wind measurements are almost useless. Use at your own risk. Data is … Read more
Add normal user account On other computers in my home network I have the user name “jim”. For convenient logging into the Pi it’s useful to have an account with the same name. This is easily created as follows (when logged in as root): Now I can login from my main computer with a simple … Read more