[450] Weather console

[Robert Busino]

Nice.
  
 73 from the downstairs shack
  
  
  

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 From: "David McKenzie" <k1fsy at vhfwiki.com>
Sent: Friday, March 3, 2023 7:56 PM
To: "144.450 Mailing List" <450 at lists.vhfwiki.com>
Subject: [450] Weather console   
    I replaced the ISS (integrated sensor suite) on my Davis Vantage Vue 
weather station when I moved to Burlington and it had been trouble free 
until a week or two ago when I was able to knock it out for a day on a 
couple of occasions most likely due to RFI. Some may recall the saga when I 
first obtained the weather staton and had to use nickel conductive paint to 
shield parts of it to avoid this problem. Anywho, I picked up an Ecowitt 
station off of amazon to supplement and potentially replace the davis 
station, but it has wifi reception only and I wanted a console. Enter a 
4.2" e-paper display connected to an esp32 that refreshes every sixty 
seconds or so with new weather data and doesn't require any power between 
updates. I haven't run it on battery but it would be feasible to do so with 
minute or 5 minute updates for a decent amount of time.
  
 Here's a picture of the prototype from earlier today when it was sunny. It 
could use some better icons (can do fonts from ram) and a chart or two in 
the dead space. The screen is only capable of a full refresh so it has to 
do a white/black/white cycle to clear itself which is somewhat apparent but 
really not too bad.
  

 


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