Weather Station

Hi, guys! Here we go again with some news!!!

After several months spent trying to do a bit of publicity on social media, I got a collaboration proposal from a Chinese company called Digitspace, which proposed me to do a project: they would provide me the material and I would have to produce something that worked!

Taking advantage of their offer I showed them my idea to make a home automation system but having only one month to complete it I had to reduce the workload.
So, at the moment, I decided to do only a part of the whole initial project, building a weather station.

The components

After selecting the components that I needed on the Digitspace website (I leave you the link: https://www.digitspace.com/ there are really interesting things 😄) I ordered the items and in 2 weeks everything worked perfectly! 🎉🎉🎉

I’ll put you some photos of the most interesting components:

  • Temperature and humidity sensor
  • Pressure sensor
  • 3.5″ LCD screen
  • RaspberryPi 4 – 4GB Ram

For the curious, the model of the temperature and humidity sensor is DHT11 Digital Temperature Humidity Sensor Module while the pressure sensor is GY-BMP280-3.3 High Precision Atmospheric Sensor Module.

If you are interested in watching all the purchased items you can find a video on my Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/GpYLHIQz6UY
Ah! And please… subscribe!! 😋

Graphic Interface

Now comes the interesting part! 😁

Having the LCD panel I thought to make a serious graphic interface and not to leave everything on console as for the CNC.

Small screen (3.5″), simple interface! But it’s never too easy to make a nice and clean interface. I used only pure HTML and CSS, and I in my opinion it didn’t result so bad, I think 😅

The interface consists of 3 parts:

  • homepage: that contains the buttons of the various functionalities (as already said at the moment I will implement only the weather station part);
  • realtime page: that shows the current temperature, humidity and pressure values;
  • graphs page (one for each detected data): where the temperature, pressure and humidity values of the last 24 hours are shown.
  • Homepage
  • Realtime page
  • Graphs page (temperature)

The code that interfaces with the sensors and the database was written in PHP and Python because I find them very convenient and fast to use and since this is not a particularly difficult project and I didn’t have so much time, I thought that this was the best choice.

Conclusions

Now there’s the hardware part to make but I’m very excited about this collaboration and I want to be able to give my best in this project!

Don’t miss the next article! 😃😃😃 and thanks Digitspace!!

P.S. If you have any advice on the graphical interface leave a comment to this article 😉 thanks!!!