I Upgraded My 3D Printed IoT Weather Station Using Your Suggestions

In this video, we’re going to be making some upgrades to my previously built IoT weather station using suggestions from the comments section. We’ll see how well the weather station performs after the upgrades and I’ve included a link to the public Thingspeak channel below, so you can have a look at the most recently recorded data.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Visit my blog for the full upgrade instructions, code and 3D print files - www.the-diy-li...
View the weather station's dashboard - www.the-diy-li...
Original weather station video - • DIY 3D Printed IoT Wea...
PURCHASE LINKS
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What You Need For This Upgrade Project
Firebeetle ESP32-E IoT Development Board - bit.ly/2VYygmj
BME280 Sensor - amzn.to/3jzTaB3
Allegro A3213 Hall Effect Sensor (Link is for A3144, Amazon don’t have A3213) - amzn.to/3GhG0m0
3000mAh LiPo Battery - amzn.to/3npdTbJ
5V 1A Solar Panel (Similar Specs) - amzn.to/3m9unW4
Solar Power Management Board - amzn.to/3Gm1Wwm
Ribbon Cable - amzn.to/3B50gmU
Header Pins - amzn.to/3maeMpp
Button Head Screws - amzn.to/3b8UJRU
Tools & Equipment Used
Creality Ender 3 V2 3D Printer - amzn.to/3GgON7E
TS100 OLED Soldering Iron - amzn.to/3b6iaLp
Dremel Versatip Soldering Iron - amzn.to/3vHHKzK
Fluke Multimeter - amzn.to/3snFyvY
Some of the above parts are affiliate links. By purchasing products through the above links, you’ll be supporting this channel, with no additional cost to you.
CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:31 Which Components Will Be Upgraded
1:28 Replacing The Components
3:17 Software Changes
4:37 Testing The Power Consumption
5:49 Re-assembly
6:21 Adding Solar Charging
8:02 Conclusion
If you've got any ideas for Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or other Electronics projects or tutorials you'd like to see, let me know in the comments section.

[@royeubanks639]

Thanks for posting this. I printed the parts and built this as well. For the wind cups, I superglued a bearing the size of the bottom and machined a coupler from aluminum that fit inside the bottom with a slightly larger bottom half so the cups rest on the coupler. I also dirilled and tapped an M5 hole in the coupler and mounted that to the top. I tested the arrangement with a powerful leaf blower and the wind cups stayed on the coupler without coming off.

[@bgable7707]

WOW, Great Build - This definitely is the way to go! Thanks for all the work (I agree per "Stoner's" comment, a nice add : battery voltage or percentage of battery life)

[@citizengkar7824]

Great DIY project, one of the best I've seen. Well thought out, & presented. The best ideal, of the internet, shown right here: people giving & receiving ideas, to improve on someone's inventiveness.

[@zouna007]

Add a rain sensor end air quality sensor :D

[@JohnWeland]

This is awesome mate. I see in the comments others have mentione PM 2.5 and wind direction. It would be neat to see it added to a LoRa radio so you could deploy it out a ways from a wifi signal. I am looking ot build something like this for our community garden (about 3km away). Seeing the quality of the resin print makes me want to get one. I have an Prusa Mini (FDM printer) currently. Its good, but your looks amazing.

[@MiguelMateo]

Michael, another idea that should be simple to implement is noise sensors; assuming the wind turbines are silent.

[@tomaztercic9147]

Very good, I like that you replaced with hall sensor, which is more accurate. I will be also making this weather station, maybe I will use GSM module along as I will place this station to remote area.

[@MichaelKlements]

Thanks Tomaz. Yeah that's a nice idea

[@yasiromenacho5694]

excelente video le hare algunas modificaciones: pluviometro y sensor de humedad del suelo para la agricultura saludos desde bolivia

[@neurojitsu]

I'm definitely going to build this now, great updates.

[@MichaelKlements]

Thanks NeuroJitsu!

[@AndreChaosweapon]

great project, now with a solar panel (even if has a low performance) you can add a extra battery to store extra energy and you add others projects maybe a rain sensor wich you can send a notification on your smartphone

[@MichaelKlements]

Thanks Andre,. Yes, I'd like to still add a rain sensor and an air particle sensor to this.

[@lucidjack4748]

@@MichaelKlements It will be nice to add a tipping bucket rain gauge and a ultrasonic anemometer sensor reather than having moving parts for mesuring the wind speed. I'm working on adding these things to my weather station

[@billstoner5559]

Great project! I know it’s probably overkill but why not add battery voltage or percentage of battery life to the dashboard? Should be easy to program and adds a professional touch to the whole project.

[@MichaelKlements]

I was actually going to add this and then I decided against it because the power being drawn from the battery is so low. It'll only use 1% of the battery after two days without any sun, which is highly unlikely in my area. With the panel that I'm using it only needs about 5-6 minutes of sun a day to replace the power used in a day. In short it'll probably just stay at 100% indefinitely. I might still add battery monitoring if I start putting additional sensors onto it.

[@mukhtar__]

awesome project!

[@MichaelKlements]

Thank you!

[@seyitbural8184]

Hi first great project works wonderfully for me. Wanted to ask if you can install mqtt for home assistant

[@MiguelMateo]

Awesome update but you forgot to add the PM2.5 sensor :)

[@MichaelKlements]

Thanks Miguel, that's coming. PM2.5 sensors are quite large, so I'll likely add this underneath the solar panel in a future update.

[@MiguelMateo]

@@MichaelKlements Thanks, looking forward to it; let me know the Etsy link :)

[@mariuspetcu7482]

Great project and also Impressive. I would like to follow your project but one step at the time, considering that yours is to much for my knowledge (LOL). I've seen your page but is Full off annoying advertising (LOL). Do you have somewhere a PDF or another site where I can download those instructions? .Thank You & keep up up to date with everything you do. P.S. of course you got another subscriber . Best of Luck

[@adambeedle]

Nice work man!

[@MichaelKlements]

Thanks Adam

[@HuaweiBaru]

Can you add feature to record the wind direction, my be it I'll use full weather station spot.

[@samstaton7215]

+1 on the wind direction indicator. I live on a private airstrip and this would be a great source of weather information here.

[@kevinwilliams184]

Additional +1 on the wind direction. Would really prefer to doing this as compared to purchasing a kit. This has cleaner lines.

[@MathematikO0]

Hello! Congrats on the project. Is your project rain resistant? Does the rain not damage the internal sensors? Thanks!

[@MichaelKlements]

Thank you. It’s somewhat rain resistant, I don’t think it would survive long periods of rain or rain with a high wind speed but it handles rain in my area well. It’s been running for a few months now without any issues.

[@Sttreg]

Damn ! I'd l;ove to build this for my father, but I can't find most component in europe, such as the solar power manager 5v, or you esp32-e board. There are equivalent for the last one tho, But I don't know about its power consumption

[@MichaelKlements]

DF Robot delivery to most European countries if you order from them directly.

[@nihlil]

U could also install a lightning detector?

[@HiltonT69]

Zero output from the device on the dashboard would be an effective lightning detector. :)

[@jodrei7643]

I would try it with a LTO cell.

[@MichaelKlements]

I've never tried these, they look like something between a lithium ion cell and a capacitor. Have you tried them?

[@jodrei7643]

@@MichaelKlements No, had no need to use them. However, I find this cell type interesting. The voltage is not quite ideal, the voltage is quiet low. If 2 cells are used balancing may needed, or if only one cell is used a step-up like for example TPS610986 is needed. At the moment I'm trying to design my own esp32 ic based board already have the ic's . However, the lto cells should be more durable than normal batteries and it can run even from ~ -40 ° C to ~ 70 ° C , it also has a lower self-discharge than a capacitor and can therefore be use it as a buffer if there is no sun.

[@TheUnofficialMaker]

add an earthquake sensor

[@HiltonT69]

In something with a spinny bit on it, it would be well over 100% inaccurate as an earthquake sensor.