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Gopher WX Station
Description
This is just a little home project I have that mixes gopher, python, gnuplot, and shell scripting. The sensor is a BME280 that is connected to a raspberry pi as well as a simple bucket rain sensor. The page can be accessed at gopher://perilo.us or https://wx.perilo.us.
Features
It currently gathers temperature, humidity, air pressure, and rainfall. Temperature, humidity, and air pressure are captured every ten minutes and writen to a daily log file. This is done by configuring a crontab to run scripts/wxlog.py every ten minutes. This script also generates new year/month folders/files and a new daily log file if they don't already exist. Rain data is gathered by a background process, scripts/rain.py that must run as a background process to count the number of bucket tips in the rain sensor. This data is logged in a separate monthly rain folder.
Upon each new gopher request, it provides current weather data. Gnuplot is used to display data graphs in ascii format.
Todo
- Add anemometer
- Generate Heat Index