Automated Home Weather Station (Satellite Image Collector)
Published July 21, 2023, 9:35 p.m. by Liam Bradley
This started as a home weather station project, so far I've gotten as far as the satellite image downloading system. Adding local weather sensors will probably be a future video. So far, the system is set up to automatically receive NOAA and METEOR-M2 satellite transmissions and display the weather maps in a web panel. Along the way I had to rebuilt my satellite antenna, upgrade my Raspberry Pi computer, and get a bigger waterproof housing to fit all the equipment.
Some resources I used for this project include:
-QFH antenna guide: http://usradioguy.com/noaa-apt-reception/
-Instructables guide: https://www.instructables.com/Raspberry-Pi-NOAA-Weather-Satellite-Receiver/
-Code for automating the entire process: https://github.com/jekhokie/raspberry-noaa-v2
-Reddit and the helpful users on https://www.reddit.com/r/amateursatellites/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/rtlsdr
Some issues I ran into:
-Raspberry Pi's don't have a clock... so if you're doing this off-grid or somewhere without always-on internet you'll need an add-on clock module.
-My SDR doesn't seem to work with rtl_fm's -T option, so I had to manually enable and disable the Bias-tee as described here: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-blog-v-3-dongles-user-guide/
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