I have been looking at connecting my Weatherduino Pro2 to a Raspberry pi for a while and I remember old post on other threads regarding some initial attempts, so I spent some time reading this thread as well as the Cumulus forum.
The whole idea was to have a standalone system rather then hooking the station to my MAC..
Eventually two weeks ago, I bought a Raspberry pi3. I installed Raspbian on it with the provided SD card. That was quick and simple. Then I got the latest version of mono, not so much issue there.
I focused after on Cumulux MX. When I first launched it the station was not detected, it took me a couple of tries in Cumulus to have the right settings and make them talk together.. Eventually all went well!
I also hooked 7” touch screen to it to avoid having my screen plugged all the time during the testing. I was wondering if I would keep it but finally decided I won’t as the pi3 is supposed to solely run CumuluxMX and I could access to it remotely. Plus I am not too much a big fan of the rendering on such a small screen (800x600) even though I know we can customize CumulusMX too as a few people did. It’s also a way to keep my existing RX box untouched.
I will keep the touch screen for the Pro4 ☺
I then decided to have all the data relayed to my website. I took me some time to customize the web pages (xxxxT.html templates) integrate them to my existing layout and make work the gauges page – a few test and tries later, I was good to go!
The station is now connected to the Raspberry pi3 for about 2 weeks – I just need to add the auto start script – and it works great. I can connect to it via ssh and the wifi and launch Cumulus MX on my MAC remotely if needed, but most of the times I connect to my website. Pretty handy!
Issues found:
- I noticed a funny issue with the touch screen in the default browser on Raspbian whereby the upper shortcuts in Cumulux MX become inactive after a while when you click on them – rather you get a popup window prompting if you want to download the underlying page..?
- Since the pi3 has no RTC module I found a procedure to initialise the right time zone, but it's something you need every time the power is off.. have to think about it.
The whole idea was to have a standalone system rather then hooking the station to my MAC..
Eventually two weeks ago, I bought a Raspberry pi3. I installed Raspbian on it with the provided SD card. That was quick and simple. Then I got the latest version of mono, not so much issue there.
I focused after on Cumulux MX. When I first launched it the station was not detected, it took me a couple of tries in Cumulus to have the right settings and make them talk together.. Eventually all went well!
I also hooked 7” touch screen to it to avoid having my screen plugged all the time during the testing. I was wondering if I would keep it but finally decided I won’t as the pi3 is supposed to solely run CumuluxMX and I could access to it remotely. Plus I am not too much a big fan of the rendering on such a small screen (800x600) even though I know we can customize CumulusMX too as a few people did. It’s also a way to keep my existing RX box untouched.
I will keep the touch screen for the Pro4 ☺
I then decided to have all the data relayed to my website. I took me some time to customize the web pages (xxxxT.html templates) integrate them to my existing layout and make work the gauges page – a few test and tries later, I was good to go!
The station is now connected to the Raspberry pi3 for about 2 weeks – I just need to add the auto start script – and it works great. I can connect to it via ssh and the wifi and launch Cumulus MX on my MAC remotely if needed, but most of the times I connect to my website. Pretty handy!
Issues found:
- I noticed a funny issue with the touch screen in the default browser on Raspbian whereby the upper shortcuts in Cumulux MX become inactive after a while when you click on them – rather you get a popup window prompting if you want to download the underlying page..?
- Since the pi3 has no RTC module I found a procedure to initialise the right time zone, but it's something you need every time the power is off.. have to think about it.