Deluxe Capacitor

Mini Weather Panel

 
 
 
 
 
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Description

Weather screen used to display current and upcoming weather conditions

  • Current temperature
  • Todays max temperature
  • Todays weather icon (sun, cloud etc)
  • Rainfall for the next 24 hours

Instructions

Config information is stored on the micro SD card, inserted into the back of the board. Copy the example config.txt file (found in the code folder) onto a blank sd card, and add the relevant config information.

Sign up for a free api key at https://openweathermap.org/api and add that to the config file

This config file is used to set the following:

  • Network details
  • Open weather map API key
  • Location (for weather reporting)
  • Units
  • Timezone

Arduino config

You will need to use the ESP8266 Arduino core to compile and upload this code https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino

These libraries are also required

  • Time - http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_Time.html
  • Adafruit LED Backpack - https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_LED_Backpack
  • Adafurit GFX - https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-GFX-Library

Hardware

  • ESP8266 Wifi processor
  • 2 x 7 segment LED screens
  • 2 x 8x8 matrix LED screens
  • FTDI headers for programming
  • Mini USB for power

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Designed by Richard Hawthorn
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