Story
The Origins:
A few weeks ago I made a project involving a Bresser weather station and a LilyGO LoRa32 circuit, all installed at home, for managing weather datas and relay them to the network servers Weather Underground and APRS/CWPO (here the link to the project) to publish local data worldwide.
Happy for the result, it works 24/24 and 7/7 at my home, I push myself a bit more to satisfy a long time ago desire: to put a weather station at the local paragliding take-off to have wind speed, wind direction, temperature and humidity and share these data for everybody. But the take-off is on the top of a mountain and there we don’t have electric power nor WiFi…
Wunderground, APRS, CWOP? What are these?
For an answer and some other details please have a look to the above link mentioning my previous project.
The Circuit:
The project is simple from an electronic point of view, in the sense we do not have to make PCBs, find and solder components, etc. but just assembling something to contain the ready-to-use LilyGO boards in plastic boxes and something more. The weather station in all-in self contained with AA batteries that should last for a year or more, put the unit on the top of a pole following included instructions in the box when you buy it. Choose a solar panel with pole support and point it to the south at 45° (southern hemisphere installation should point to the north…). The remote LilyGO that stays near the station on the mountain has to have a rechargeable battery installed, just buy the suggested size and plug-in its connector; the same thing with the solar panel, just plug-in to same LilyGO to recharge the battery with the sun. Another LilyGO stays at home powered by USB and connected to the internet via WiFi.