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Open a command line terminal window. 

 

cd SDL_Pi_SkyWeather 
sudo pigpiod 
sudo python SkyWeather.py 

 

Make sure you have the Grove LoRa Transciever plugged into your Pi2Grove Board.   The SkyWeather System 
will automatically configure itself. 

 

You should see something like this: 
 

pi@switchdoclabs:~/SDL_Pi_SkyWeather $ sudo python SkyWeather.py 
(15.177600000000002, 7, 2) 
() 
('Pi Camera Revision', u'ov5647') 
('HW-Version: ', 18) 
('after bme680', True) 
as3935 start 
as3935 present at 0x02 
 
SkyWeather Weather Station Version 034 - SwitchDoc Labs 
 
 
Program Started at:2019-05-05 16:13:46 
 
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I2C Mux - TCA9545:    

 

Present 

BME680:    

 

Present 

BMP280:    

 

Not Present 

SkyCam:    

 

Present 

DS3231:    

 

Not Present 

HDC1080:      

Not Present 

AM2315:    

 

Not Present 

ADS1015:      

Not Present 

ADS1115:      

Present 

AS3935:    

 

Present 

OLED:    

 

Not Present 

SunAirPlus:    

 

Not Present 

SI1145 Sun Sensor:    

 

Not Present 

TSL2591 Sun Sensor:    

 

Present 

DustSensor:    

 

Present 

WXLink:    

 

Present 

 
UseBlynk:      

Present 

UseMySQL:      

Present 

Check WLAN:    

 

Present 

WeatherUnderground:    

 

Not Present 

UseWeatherStem:      

Present 

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sendmail exception raised 
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 Sample and Display  
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 Weather Sampling 
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Bad data from WXLink, discarded new data.  Kept old 
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 SunAirPlus Not Present 
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 AS3935 Lightning Detector  

Summary of Contents for SkyWeather WXLink

Page 1: ...Version 1 2 May 2019 SkyWeather WXLink Assembly and Testing Guide May 2019 Version 1 2...

Page 2: ...ssembly Error Bookmark not defined Final Assembly Pictures Error Bookmark not defined Wiring Lists for SkyWeather Error Bookmark not defined SkyWeather Initial Testing 17 Power Up your Raspberry Pi Er...

Page 3: ...Version 1 2 May 2019 Page 1...

Page 4: ...Version 1 2 May 2019 Page 2 Errata Version 1 2 Clarified contents of SkyWeather WXLink Kit...

Page 5: ...cess This project has no soldering involved and uses Grove connectors to wire everything up You can t reverse them and blow things up Here is our tutorial on the Grove system SkyWeather Features Barom...

Page 6: ...Version 1 2 May 2019 Page 4...

Page 7: ...the WeatherRack and the outside temperature humidity sensors outside and the rest of SkyWeather can either be inside or outside There are no wires between the WXLink remote box and the SkyWeather sys...

Page 8: ...v1 1 pdf If you want to set up a headless no monitor keyboard mouse Raspberry Pi it is more complicated Here are some links to tutorials for that process http www circuitbasics com raspberry pi basic...

Page 9: ...ar Power Controller and Data Collector and a 330mA 6V Solar Cell The SkyWeather Solar WXLink Kit is a solar powered wireless serial link that can transmit up to 6000 meters in free air with the proper...

Page 10: ...Multi Solar Panel Connector Board Grove 433MHz LoRa Transceiver The main functional module in the LoRa Radio 433MHz is RFM98 which is a transceiver features the LoRa long range modem that provides ult...

Page 11: ...mitter 1600 meters 5200 feet What do I Do First The first thing to do is assemble and test the base SkyWeather Kit Test everything Remember since you have a wireless link from the Weather Instruments...

Page 12: ...Version 1 2 May 2019 Page 10 Part AA Two 2 Grove LoRa Transceivers Part AB Mini Pro LP Arduino...

Page 13: ...Page 11 Version 1 1 May 2019 Part AC WXLinkWR WeatherRack Interface Board Part AD SunAirPlus Solar Power Controller With PinHeader to Grove Adaptor...

Page 14: ...Page 12 Version 1 1 May 2019...

Page 15: ...Page 13 Version 1 1 May 2019 Part AE Two 2 330mA Solar Panels Part AF Five 5 20cm Grove Cables...

Page 16: ...Page 14 Version 1 1 May 2019 Part AG USB Cable Type A USB to Micro USB Part AH Solar Panel Multi Connect Board...

Page 17: ...he Grove LoRa Transceiver board Part AA Step 4 Connect the other end of the 20cm Grove Cable Part AF from Step 3 into the Grove Serial Port on your Pi2Grover Board in SkyWeather This completes the Sky...

Page 18: ...Page 16 Version 1 1 May 2019 Black GND Double check your wiring...

Page 19: ...the Grove Cable from the AM2315 Temperature Humidity Sensor that you disconnected from SkyWeather in Step 2 into the other I2C Port on the Mini Pro LP Board Part AB Step 8 Plug the second Grove LoRa T...

Page 20: ...2019 Step 10 Plug the other end of the Grove Cable Part AD from Step 9 into the port D3 D4 on the Mini Pro LP Board Part AB Step 11 Plug a Grove Cable Part AD into the WXLinkWR Part AC Port Grove Anem...

Page 21: ...Page 19 Version 1 1 May 2019 Step 12 Plug the other end of the Grove Cable Part AD from Step 11 into the port D2 A1 on the Mini Pro LP Board Part AB...

Page 22: ...of the 330mA Solar Panels Part AE into the Solar Panel 1 Plug on the Multiple Solar Panel Connector Board Part AH Step 14 Plug the JST2 Plug on the other 330mA Solar Panels Part AE into the Solar Pan...

Page 23: ...A to Micro USB Cable Part AG from the 5V USB Out Plug on SunAirPlus Part AD to the MicroUSB Plug on the Mini Pro LP Part AB Step 17 Plug the RJ11 cable from the Rain Bucket on your WeatherRack from th...

Page 24: ...dsNow we need to do some testing SkyWeather Solar WXLink Initial Testing SkyWeather Solar WXLink operations again are similar to the full kit The Solar WXLink allows you to mount the AM2315 and the We...

Page 25: ...take some time to sync in especially if you are in an electrically noisy environment and you may see a number of bad CRCs from that kind of environment If you don t see good messages after a while mov...

Page 26: ...2 SkyWeather Weather Station Version 034 SwitchDoc Labs Program Started at 2019 05 05 16 13 46 I2C Mux TCA9545 Present BME680 Present BMP280 Not Present SkyCam Present DS3231 Not Present HDC1080 Not P...

Page 27: ...59 PDT doAllGraphs trigger interval 0 15 00 next run at 2019 05 05 16 28 59 PDT barometricTrend trigger interval 0 15 00 next run at 2019 05 05 16 28 59 PDT read_AQI trigger interval 0 15 00 next run...

Page 28: ...tage 6 57 WXLink solarPanelCurrent 4 80 WXLink auxA 0 00 WXLink Message ID 12323 WXLink_Data_Fresh set to True SunAirPlus Not Present AS3935 Lightning Detector Last result from AS3935 No Lightning det...

Page 29: ...even time lapse photography SkyWeather and WeatherSTEM together rock This is a great kit in which to learn about weather sensing data sharing in the cloud and the Raspberry Pi Wiring Lists and Wiring...

Page 30: ...Labs products technical support is given through the forums on Forum switchdoc com If you have issues that can be solved by our fabulous customer service department please go to www switchdoc com and...

Page 31: ...se reasons which are not related to product quality such as operating without following the operating manual and cautions natural disasters or force majeure SwitchDoc Labs LLC has compiled and publish...

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