Helps a lot, thanks. I kinda figured you had other power that you're just piggybacking the pi onto. Cool project.
On Sunday, October 24, 2021 at 6:55:18 PM UTC-7 Seth Ratner wrote: > One wire to the chosen GPIO pin (set in weewx.conf) and one to GND. > > Nope. I might keep it for a future project, but not used here > > Yeah I'm guessing it's just because the wire is not direct burial rated. > I'll be routing mine through PVC > > I keep it in a shed in the orchard. All components are mounted to a piece > of plywood. For power I have a 20w solar panel with a Renogy Wanderer solar > charge controller and a 6Ah battery. I may increase the battery size, as > the system also powers an OpenSprinkler controller and 16 zone extender. > The Pi serves as a WeeWx host, MQTT bridge with my HomeAssistant server and > reverse proxy to serve the Open Sprinkler. I'll add an Ecowitt HS80 and > GW1100 soon to complete the station. > > I may once I finish things up, but there's not much to see with the GPIO > Rain Gauge since literally the only setup is connecting the two wires to > the two RPi pins. > > On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 12:32:02 PM UTC-5 vince wrote: > >> Pretty cool. Dumb questions follow..... >> >> - how'd you wire it up ? >> - did you not use the little display that comes with the gauge ? >> - their manual says 'wire cannot be buried' - any idea why ? What >> if it was in a PVC conduit ? >> - what does your zeroW setup look like for powering it, keeping it >> dry, etc. ???? >> - add photos and a nice writeup to your github page perhaps ? >> >> Reason I'm asking is that this seems like a pretty nice way for folks to >> add a rain gauge to stations like WeatherFlow that have notoriously >> inaccurate readings, assuming they are already running the nice WF UDP >> driver for that gear... >> >> >> >> On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 7:22:05 AM UTC-7 Seth Ratner wrote: >> >>> Got it working! >>> >>> This allows you to add a wired rain gauge to WeeWx via the GPIO pins on >>> a Raspberry Pi. Thanks for the help! >>> >>> https://github.com/lordratner/weewx_gpio_raingauge >>> >>> On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 8:17:23 AM UTC-5 Seth Ratner wrote: >>> >>>> Fantastic, Thank you! That's exactly what I needed. >>>> >>>> On Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 2:39:32 PM UTC-5 [email protected] >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Seth Ratner schrieb am Donnerstag, 21. Oktober 2021 um 21:27:14 UTC+2: >>>>> >>>>>> How are variables in weewx.conf referenced? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> By the variable config_dict you find in __init__. It is a dictionary >>>>> the represents weewx.conf. For Example the section [Station] you find as >>>>> config_dict['Station']. The entry "location" in the [Station] section you >>>>> find as config_dict['Station']['location']. >>>>> >>>>> If you need your own entries, define a section and put your values >>>>> there. Then you can access them via config_dict. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/cb9d7eb6-f568-4466-828e-bde9e04c1eden%40googlegroups.com.
