With the temperature, humidity etc sensors available for the raspberry pi as add on boards. Would MX be able to read these sensors?
If so, it would be a cheap and interesting way to gather more data.
http://thepihut.com/collections/sensors ... r-5v-ready
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Raspberry Pi additional sensors possibly via MX or PHP
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Raspberry Pi additional sensors possibly via MX or PHP
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Re: Raspberry Pi breakout board extra sensors
MX is a .net application which runs on the Pi by virtue of the Mono runtime. So if a .net library is available to access these devices, then it would be possible, in purely theoretical, technical terms, for MX to use them.
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Re: Raspberry Pi breakout board extra sensors
Thanks for the reply Steve, Ive just ordered a couple of sensors to have a play with.
Ive had a look round and theres seems to be lots of info for getting these sensors working on the Pi. Hopefully there maybe a few other members out there who might be interested in giving this a try.
Ive had a look round and theres seems to be lots of info for getting these sensors working on the Pi. Hopefully there maybe a few other members out there who might be interested in giving this a try.
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Re: Raspberry Pi breakout board extra sensors
I played a round with a Pi receiving the FO transmitter broadcasts direct, cutting out the console. All you needed to add was a barometer sensor.
Now it should be possible to do this with the VP2 ISS and other transmitters, hmm...
Now it should be possible to do this with the VP2 ISS and other transmitters, hmm...
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Re: Raspberry Pi breakout board extra sensors
Mark, i never thought of that, how did you receive the transmissions, was it just via an off the shelf aerial?
What i had imagined was a Raspberry PI outside with numerous sensors hard wired to it dotted around the garden, which would transmit to my weather stations Raspberry PI indoors via wifi. Then either via Cumulus or a php script to My website.
What i had imagined was a Raspberry PI outside with numerous sensors hard wired to it dotted around the garden, which would transmit to my weather stations Raspberry PI indoors via wifi. Then either via Cumulus or a php script to My website.
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Re: Raspberry Pi cheap additional sensors possibly via MX or
=Yes, if you Google it you should find a few sites with the details, e.g. this is the first hit. You buy a small programmable radio module I used an RFM01 - EDIT: I think, it was some time ago.
The Davis radio protocol has now also been almost fully decoded on the WX forum, so you should be able to build your own Envoy8X equivalent on a rPi or a simpler micro-controller based board if you had the know how.
The Davis radio protocol has now also been almost fully decoded on the WX forum, so you should be able to build your own Envoy8X equivalent on a rPi or a simpler micro-controller based board if you had the know how.