https://rickymoorhouse.uk/tags/weather/ Recent content in Weather on Ricky Moorhouse Hugo en-gb Sat, 12 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2018/weather-station/ Sat, 12 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2018/weather-station/ <p>For a while I've been meaning to write up the details of the Raspberry Pi weather station that I have built with my eldest daughter. This project builds on a number of examples I've seen across the internet, particularly <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/sensing-the-weather/">sensing the weather</a>. This details how our system is put together.</p> <h3 id="temperature-monitoring">Temperature monitoring</h3> <p>We took two temperature sensors and mounted them in a garden post with one pushed down to the bottom for soil temperature and one in the cap for the air temperature. The one-wire sensors can share the same three wires, so are both connected to a wire leading back to the Raspberry Pi through a hole drilled into the side of the post. For waterproofing we surrounded the whole with hot glue. The post is situated in a shady spot and pushed about 30 centimeters deep in the soil.</p>