Put your weather station on the air!

Let's put a weather station on the air, allowing us to get weather updates on our HT's and other APRS-enabled radios.
Steps covered in this video:
sudo su - root
apt-get install weewx
follow prompts to setup weewx
cd /tmp
wget github.com/cavedon/weewx-aprs...
wee_extension --install=master.zip
vi /etc/weewx/weewx.conf
[APRS]
output_filename = /dev/shm/aprs.pkt
include_position = 1 ### change this to 1
symbol_table = /
symbol_code = _
comment = ""
systemctl stop weewx
systemctl start weewx
confirm /dev/shm/aprs.pkt exists after 10 minutes or so
apt-get install direwolf # gives us "kissutil"
cd /usr/local/bin/
wget raw.githubusercontent.com/cra...
chmod 755 aprs-send-weather.sh
vi aprs-send-weather.sh
User serviceable parts:
USER="KM6XXX-3"
PASS="12345"
gen PASS password here: apps.magicbug.co.uk/passcode/...
exit # become pi user again
send packet over RF, get "aprs-send-weather.sh"
/usr/local/bin/aprs-send-weather.sh
Tell cron to run that at the top of every hour
crontab -e ## append the following line
0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/aprs-send-weather.sh

[@ruxpi]

I really like your amateur radio videos, entertaining, educational, and we'll presented. Thanks!

[@KO4VNX]

This is a great video! Not too lost in the weeds, not too dummied down, hard to balance those two like you did!

[@KO4VNX]

Hahahhaa, I use direwolf to pull down add-ons for old WoW private servers! Hilarious that we can use this for practical, useful things!

[@coreyperez13]

This was pretty cool. I just bumped into your channel looking at starting an APRS weather station for North Pole, Alaska. Thanks! KL4DA

[@matteng2332]

Great video, I always wondered how they did that. Definitely going to add one to my project list.

[@jphillips260]

Craig you strike again! Thank you for making the final piece of this chain. It's been a roadblock for me for years.

[@mariaviklund4546]

Amazing! Thanks for the commands in the discription. That was genious!

[@awksedgreep]

So much easier than what I did. Manually wrote the controller code for a sparkfun diy station pushing data via mqtt and node red into a time series db with the next steps being moving that data to aprs with node red plugin. Kinda makes me want to start over with a purchased weather station and simplify.

[@KM6LYW]

sounds cool Mark, is there some sort of RF/SDR receiver that can read common weather stations? I noticed my station is in the 70cm band, so i don't get data when I'm talking on UHF. It'd be cool to just have an RTL-SDR receiver and send packets from that. The weather station/USB display heads aren't always reliable.

[@awksedgreep]

@@KM6LYW I haven’t tried it. Mine is all manually created microcontroller code that publishes to mqtt. Node red today puts that in a time series db and graphs with grafana. I have the plugins for aprs but don’t know how they work yet. Will be interesting forming something direwolf can consume. That’s my next step. Well that and taking advantage of the lightning sensor. Want to shut down radios and disconnect antennas if within say 2km or so.

[@TheDark0rb]

@@KM6LYWrtl_433 should do the trick for a lot of them

[@dennisdeville8984]

Can this work with other ports on the radio like maybe the rj12...not sure how to go from USB to that though

[@richvantrease]

I like the looks of your TNC, where did you get that, or did you make it yourself?

[@richvantrease]

Answered my question in your video, thank you!

[@LeeAlder]

Question can this be adapted for Storm Spotters to send weather conditions back to main weather hub ?

[@KM6LYW]

yah, all data is collected on aprs.fi -- tons of aprs/cwop weather stations there. if your station gets out on RF, and is heard by an igate, it will show up on aprs.fi

[@t48wolf]

Could not save modified config file due to permission error seems like installing in root is the issue. For that matter just how did you modify the file it comes up in view only mod following your instructions I went to the directory and open it but since I was not in root it would not let me save the file.

[@Martin-hq1if]

Hi Craig, is you File Readdy for the Netatmo Wieather stations?

[@KM6LYW]

Check with the WeeWx developers to be sure.

[@K9TPT]

How do I connect my weather station to the PI? Thank you

[@KM6LYW]

In this case, with a USB cable

[@jphillips260]

Has anyone found a weather station that's available to buy today that works with weewx? I'm concerned most of the ones for sale arent available with USB ports

[@eblast105]

Acu-rite 01536

[@georgedandrade-hp1gds296]

Hi I have a weather station that don't have USB to get data from sensors, only have an IP in my router. May you advice a freeware software in windows and Linux for extract in real time data from my weather station, and store in a data base to forward APRS and have my own statistics without depending on internet.?

[@KM6LYW]

lookup "weewx" and see if your station is supported with that software

[@elpeligroso1]

Ok so this is a bit of Noob question string but I just started up a Digi and after I recoup some cash (Cheep hobby lol) I'll be adding a weather Station prolly an Acurite to it, so I went to install WeeWX and such and well I'm stuck at the downloads. Typed in all the ones you noted after changing to superuser and Github doesn't like me :-( any Ideas. yeah cart before to horse since I don"t have the weather station but the fiddle is strong with this one. Oh and between you and KM4ACK there hasn't been many other APRS setup KZbin's I've saved and gone back to multiple times Thanks KJ6CXL

[@mohammedbuti8707]

Can you please help me I can not install the aprs pluging

[@mohammedbuti8707]

Are you there

[@n8sot]

Do you operate HF with an Amp??? Im asking, because I smoked my Lacross receiver while operating 40 and 80 meters with about 800 watts. The wife just got us a new weather station and im worried about doing the same thing. The only thing I can come up with so far is unplug the receiver everytime I operate. Any Ideas???? Thanks! 73 N8SOT

[@Arknz-bw1uv]

Hi, I am new to HAM and live very rural in New Zealand. Are you able to send the signals through LoRa ARPS using the digipi? Love the content, subscribed ZL4TAN.

[@KM6LYW]

I haven't tried myself, as I don't have a lora transceiver, or anyone within miles of my location that has lora. let us know if you get it going!

[@j.b.708]

hamradiated.

[@williamday562]

Error msg Can't get address for TCP KISS TNC, direwolf.hostname, Name or service not known

[@williamday562]

I am using an SDR dongle to pull weather info then send out using internet

[@williamday562]

Commented out the TNC section