weather-station

Code for a weather station running on Raspberry Pi.

It uses a Bosch BME680 sensor from pimoroni and a waveshare 6" e-paper.

Installation

Make a virtual env: python -m venv myenv and then source myenv/bin/activate.

You need to have the IT8951 library locally on the pi, since its not on pypi.org. To install run pip install -e "git+https://github.com/GregDMeyer/IT8951#egg=IT8951"

Install dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the app

Run python main.py.

On the first startup check the console to set up access to your TADO API. ß

Running on startup:

You can set it to auto-run on startup e.g. cron:

• Log in as the user you want to run it.
• run crontab -e and enter here: @reboot cd /home/[PATH_TO_REPO]/weather-station/ && ./start_app.sh (set it to executable with chmod +x, debug with journalctl -u cron.service)

Testing locally

You can test it locally on a Unix machine (maybe on OSX too) by following the instructions in the IT8951 repo

Common errors

• If you get an error when installing RPi.GPIO: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory then you will need to run sudo apt install python3-dev

• No such file or directory: /dev/i2c-1: Run sudo raspi-config and go to Interfacing Options → I2C → Enable

• No such file or directory: /dev/spidev0.0: Run sudo raspi-config and go to Interfacing Options → SPI → Enable

Legal stuff

Weather forecast provided by Climacell and yr.no, icons from yr.no

yr.no stuff is under CC 4.0 BY and MIT license

License

Apache 2.0