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What is The WeatherSense AfterShock Solar Powered Earthquake Detector Sensor?

Easy to build. Easy to learn about the IoT (Internet of Things) and the Raspberry Pi.

The

heart

of the new WeatherSense Sensor is the our new 433MHz MiniProPlus CPU board in working in

conjunction with the SwitchDoc Labs AfterShock Earthquake Detector Board.

Summary of Contents for WeatherSense Aftershock

Page 1: ...Version 1 1 June 2021 WeatherSense Solar Powered AfterShock Earthquake Sensor Assembly and Test Manual June 2021 Version 1 1...

Page 2: ...rts you need to buy separately from the kit 12 How to select a LiPo Battery 12 Step by Step Assembly 13 Testing WeatherSense AfterShock 21 What does the JSON from the WeatherSense AfterShock mean 23 D...

Page 3: ...arthquake Detector Sensor Easy to build Easy to learn about the IoT Internet of Things and the Raspberry Pi The heart of the new WeatherSense Sensor is the our new 433MHz MiniProPlus CPU board in work...

Page 4: ...7 Page Version 1 1 June 2021 The WeatherSense AfterShock kit is so simple that even middle school children can build it with just a little adult help for configuration and installation...

Page 5: ...and connect up to your own projects and software Before You Build Your WeatherSense AfterShock System You should build and test your WeatherSense AfterShock system as below BEFORE you put it in the o...

Page 6: ...rious parts What are we doing here We are assembling the WeatherSense AfterShock Earthquake System In this manual we are going to assemble the WeatherSense AfterShock system and test all the functions...

Page 7: ...10 Page Version 1 1 June 2021 Part C 433MHz Transmitter with Antenna Part D AfterShock Earthquake Detector...

Page 8: ...11 Page Version 1 1 June 2021 Part E 330mA 6V Solar Panel Part F SunAirPlus2 Solar Power Data Collector and Controller Part G 3 7V LiPo Battery Not included Part H Three 3 20cm Grove Cables...

Page 9: ...attery The WeatherSense AfterShock sensor requires a 3 7V LiPo battery How large of a LiPo battery you need depends on how much sun you get and how often you have cloudy weather Generally we would rec...

Page 10: ...ture This makes sure that the pins are connected in the header Bend pin 1 and pin 3 slightly out Step 3 Take a 20cm grove cable Part I and plug it into the grove connector on the Mini Pro Plus Part A...

Page 11: ...14 Page Version 1 1 June 2021 Step 5 Push the WatchDog Time Enable Switch to the Left enable on the Mini Pro Plus board Part A...

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Page 13: ...s Part A grove connector marked J7 I2C and the other end into the grove connector on the SunAirPlus2 board Part F Step 7 take the USB micro to Type A cable Part B and plug it into the USB micro connec...

Page 14: ...Version 1 1 June 2021 Step 8 Make sure the switch on the SunAirPlus2 board Part F is pushed toward the Battery Connector away from the Grove Connector This turns off the power supply to the MiniProPlu...

Page 15: ...Plug the Solar Panel Part E JST 2 connector into the SunAirPlus2 Part F board JST 2 plug marked SOLAR next to the USB Micro connector on SunAirPlus2 Part F You can take the protective plastic off of...

Page 16: ...ite and Red Interrupt LED lights and then go off after a while on the AfterShock Board If the white and red LEDs on the AfterShock Part D does not go out you have plugged your 20cm Grove cable into th...

Page 17: ...rd to your computer to watch the serial port lots of data printing there Check out the WeatherSense Advanced Programming Manual to see how to do this with the Arduino IDE If there is an earthquake or...

Page 18: ...3 mkdir build cd build cmake make make install Step 2 Install the WeatherSense Software using these commands cd git clone https github com switchdoclabs SDL_Pi_WeatherSense git Step 3 Add needed pytho...

Page 19: ...delta 10 reused 12 delta 10 pack reused 0 Unpacking objects 100 12 12 done From https github com switchdoclabs SDL_Pi_WeatherSense f2193a0 c98a45c master origin master Updating f2193a0 c98a45c Fast f...

Page 20: ...Sense Software Manual If you have other WeatherSense Sensors such as SkyWeather2 WeatherRack2 F016TH Indoor sensors etc you will see them show up in the list too This is the raw data time 2021 06 03 1...

Page 21: ...are coded as AuxA has state information coded in the bottom byte of the 32 bit AuxA as 000EDCBA A 1 AfterShock Present 0 not present B 1 IN3221 Solar Present 0 not present SunAirPlus C 1 Low battery C...