Particle Photon weather stations

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hi,
i have a sparkfun photon weather shield, and i managed to compile the code and i am getting the readings in the serial monitor:

Wind_Dir:South Wind_Speed:4.8mph, Rain:0.00in., Temp:82.48F, Humidity:19.54%, Baro_Temp:83.07F, Pressure:1021.93hPa, Soil_Temp:0.00F

any idea or pointers how to get this 2 weather stations into pimatic please ?

cheers.

@chrigui
well you could use aa shellsensor or maybe log reader device to get the readings into pimatic. depends on the Regex match.
guess you are listening with cat /dev/ttyama0 (or usb0 or usb1 …) at the console? you could use a cronjob to get the values from the weather station and forward the info into a log file and parse it with the log reader device. that’s what I would do.
The other approach would be to have a shellsensor for each value. then you would have a separate device for each value. This has the advantage that you can define the time when the readings should take place for each variable but you will have a lot of devices in the gui. well you can put them all togehter with a variables device then.
The log reader has the advantage that you have an array and the device won’t use that much space in the gui. All Infos in one row.
as I said I would try the log reader first. will be some fiddling with sed / awk / grep but will work if the expression once fits.

cheers

@chrigui Do you only have the Photon Shield or do you use a Photon board, too? If the latter is the case you should be able the piamtic plugin for JohnnyFive in the near future. JohnnyFive provides an adapter for the Photon board which can be used along with the Voodoospark firmware - https://github.com/voodootikigod/voodoospark The pimatic plugin is still a few weeks works, so if you want to get things done quickly you need to roll your own sollution, i…e. writing some shell scripts and using ShellSensor or alike as @leader21 suggested.

@leader21 thank you for your reply, yes I connect to it using /dev/ttyama0 I think option 2 because I want to be able to create triggers based on individual sensor readings.
I will look into crons, shellsensor and the log reader…

@mwittig nice to see you again! I am using sparkfun weather shield https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13630 with weather meter. I saw the jhonnyfive plugin and I wasn’t sure if it will work or not but am glad it will, any idea to when you think it will work? Weeks, months?

i tried to write a serial logger but with no luck, my problem is i want to be able to log data with at least 2 weather stations, i have also noticed a new J5 plugin for Pimatic by @mwittig but i am not sure where it stands in its development.

what if i add mqtt support to the photon code will i be able to use pimatic simple mqtt plugin to communicate with the stations ?

thanks

@mwittig Added experimental support for Photon boards (“particle-io”)

@mwittig said:

@mwittig Added experimental support for Photon boards (“particle-io”)

let me know if you need a tester i can give you full control over ssh.