lol yep :D I kind of fat fingered the T-shirt design and added some random stars but yep, wearing it proudly! Thank you for all the great documentation!
On Friday, August 12, 2022 at 7:36:17 AM UTC-7 tke...@gmail.com wrote: > LOL! You made a T-shirt?! > > Glad to hear that you are putting weewx to good use. Congratulations on > your successful installation! > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 7:27 AM Brent Wilder <brentonw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello fellow weather enthusiasts, >> >> This summer me and another grad student were brought into a national park >> to install 4 fog monitoring stations. Each station required leaf wetness >> sensors and a meteorological instrument to parse out rainfall from fog. Two >> of the instruments had Campbell Sci ClimaVUE50's , which go for about >> $3,000 a pop. We did not have a lot of budget left after these, but we were >> able to find Weewx software coupled with Davis Vantage Pro 2 to be a viable >> solution! We installed two stations with the RPI Zero W + MeteoPi Hat >> connected to the Davis Reciever. Note: for those that also have the MeteoPi >> Hat with the built in RTC (Real Time Clock) coin, it's a good idea to check >> the datetime and possibly reset it / sync it to the network time if needed. >> >> >> [image: fieldpi.jpg] >> >> >> For the longest time we were not receiving proper communication between >> the two devices (FAILED TO WAKE VANTAGE, etc..). It turns out it was due to >> faulty soldering on our end! Once the soldering was fixed, Weewx >> established the database instantly and we now have all of our stations >> running smoothly. It is now been running for about a month now with no >> errors so far. >> >> [image: itworks.jpg] >> *Notice in the above picture we are connected without internet.. this is >> because we are using the RPI as a local access point >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_access_point>.* >> >> We have used quality industrial microSDs, but being in a coastal >> ecosystem with lots of moisture (hence the fog investigation), we fully >> expect the microSDs to fail in 3-4 years. Therefore, we also busted out 5 >> copies of Debian Buster with Weewx pre-installed to make for easier swaps >> in the future. Thank you so much for quality software and we look forward >> to collecting data for (hopefully) many many years! >> >> [image: shirtfront.jpg] >> >> -- >> 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 weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/20780277-0108-45e7-8262-2385060beb6fn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/20780277-0108-45e7-8262-2385060beb6fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/f8895fda-c789-4e9b-82d8-7dee9a5e88den%40googlegroups.com.
