[today: rest day, yesterday: 3.4 miles]<\/p>\n
We are starting to get some heat around here recently!<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago the weather station in Starkville quit working.\u00a0 So last weekend I stopped by and collected the equipment to bring home and see what’s up.<\/p>\n
A recap:\u00a0 I purchased three weather station devices off of the GSA auction site.\u00a0 They are nice units from Vaisala, usually cost a few thousand $$ each.<\/p>\n
I built two weather stations.\u00a0 The first was this one in Starkville and the second as at my house here in Columbus.\u00a0\u00a0 I sold the last weather unit to help fund the overall project.<\/p>\n
I used a beaglebone single-board-computer (SBC) which runs a flavor of linux, and the wview software.\u00a0 Wview is able to talk to the Vaisala weather equipment.\u00a0 The station in Starkville<\/a> used the beaglebone-white, an earlier version SBC which runs off of a mini-SD memory card.\u00a0 The Columbus <\/a>station uses a later beaglebone-black which has static internal memory.<\/p>\n The problem with the SD card as a fake disk drive is that SD cards wear out.\u00a0 After a year of 24×7 operation the Starkville station doesn’t want to boot up any more.<\/p>\n So I have acquired another beaglebone-black and I’m going to get the thing configured and running again.<\/p>\n I had a bit of\u00a0 a scare with the weather station gizmo.\u00a0 When removed from the installation the bottom of the thing was full of ants, ant eggs and junk.\u00a0 I took it apart and brushed and blew it out with some compressed air.\u00a0 Then I tried to get the station to talk to me and had a real struggle.\u00a0 I stripped down the hardware completely, thinking that maybe the ants had messed up the circuit boards.\u00a0 But other than dirty there’s no problem there. \u00a0 For awhile I was sure it was dead. Finally I read the instruction book and got the thing to talk to me.<\/p>\n Now I have the new beaglebone-black talking to the weather station.\u00a0 That means the serial port hardware is configured and working.\u00a0 I have Wifi working, but it needs some more attention to make sure it comes up on reboot.\u00a0 And then I need to build apache, php and wview.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [today: rest day, yesterday: 3.4 miles] We are starting to get some heat around here recently! A few weeks ago the weather station in Starkville quit working.\u00a0 So last weekend I stopped by and collected the equipment to bring home and see what’s up. A recap:\u00a0 I purchased three weather station devices off of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4485,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions\/4485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}