Weatherboard 2 Shield for Temp, Humidity and Light
Weatherboard Shield for Tempreature, Humidity, Pressure, UV and Light
The Weather board is an easy to use Add-on that gives you easy access to read:
- UV Index,
- Barometric pressure,
- Altitude,
- Relative humidity,
- Illumination,
- Temperature.
Board Detail
With a few batteries, you can make a portable outdoor weather data capture system. You can also connect it to your host PC or ODROID via ODROID-SHOW to log the various environmental data like a weather station.
Each sensor is shown in this picture
Hardware setup
Put your weather board on the ODROID-SHOW and connect a micro-USB cable to your host PC or other ODROID Linux boards. If the connection is established, you can find /dev/ttyUSB0 or similar one.
Connect 3~4 Alkaline or NiMH/NiCD batteries if you need a portable device.
Firmware setup
Download the sketch file and libraries from this link.
https://github.com/hardkernel/ODROID-SHOW/
Check the place of weather_board.ino sketch file.
ODROID-SHOW/firmware/weather_board/weather_board.ino
Select “preference” in the File menu and choose “ODROID-SHOW” of sketch folder.
To add proper libraries, Select Import library -> Add library and “ODROID-SHOW/libraries.
It’s time to build and upload the sketch file. The jumper(nearby reset button) must be installed.
You will see this screen which shows various weather data.
More detail process is described on our WiKi.
http://odroid.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:weather-board
- Dimension is only 20 x 20 mm
- Sensors : Si7020, BMP180, Si1132
- Recommended working voltage : 2.7 ~ 3.6 Volt
PC Application for ubuntu
How to build the PC Application for Ubuntu
Install packages
sudo apt-get install qt4-default qt4-designer libqwt-dev
Build the weather board
export GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=1 git clone https://github.com/hardkernel/ODROID-SHOW cd ODROID-SHOW/qt_weather uic weather_board.ui > ui_weather_board.h qmake make ./weather_board
See more here
Temperature & Presure Sensors wb_bmp085.c
Temperature & Humidity Sensors wb_si702x.c
Visible & IR & UV sensors wb_1132.c