Weather Station Wirelessly Connected to Wunderground
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Wimp Weather
The Wimp is a personal weather station that uses the weather shield along with an Electric Imp to push live weather data up to Wunderground. You can help increase
the accuracy and prediction of weather by adding a weather meter to your house! But why buy an off-the-shelf system when you can build you own? For around
$250 you can build a cutting edge open source station that you have complete control over! All you need is a pile of parts and access to a Wifi network.
Live weather in downtown Boulder
Wunderground makes it really easy to setup your own weather station. You fill out a form, pick a username and password, then get a station ID. Using this ID and
password, we can push weather data with a simple HTTP POST command:
http://rtupdate.wunderground.com/weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php?ID=KCOBOULD115&PASSWORD=SparkFun&dateutc=2014-07-02+03%3A32%3A42&windd
ir=270&windspeedmph=7.0humidity=45.4&tempf=43.1&baromin=29.4161&realtime=1&rtfreq=10&action=updateraw
Copy and paste the above code into a browser, and press return. You should see
success
.
Note:
You may have to modify the 2014-07-01 to today’s date. You can
then view the weather station data you just posted here. Congrats! You’ve just published your first weather data to the Internet of Things.
The above link shows how to push temperature data to the web, but you can also post a large number of other weather metrics. This example will show you how to
report the following bits of weather:
Temperature
Humidity
Light level
Rain fall
Instantaneous Wind speed + direction
Gusting speed + direction for the last 2 minutes
Gusting speed + direction for the last 60 minutes
