Lightning detection has been on my wish list for my weather station for some time. Detectors often come as stand alone units with a display or indicator LEDs. This makes sense when the use case involves taking it along as a hand held device or installing it on your boat. However, in order to process […]
Category: Arduino
Upgrade to the SHT35
Around New Year’s I took the time to finally bring a new Sensirion SHT35 temp/hygro sensor online. It’s an upgrade compared to the SHT31 sensor chip Davis uses for their Vantage Pro 2. On top of it being more precise (+/- 0,1 C in stead of 0,3 for the SHT31) it also registers an extra […]
Proof of concept custom console display
The Davis Vantage Pro 2 display is quite a bulky thing. I’ve added non-Davis sensors to my setup, and included a Davis AirLink in October too, which is WiFi based and not visible on the console. Plus, my console has been partially broken for a while. 🙂 Reason enough to look at an interesting alternative: […]
Switch to the BMP280 pressure sensor
In a previous post I wrote about tests of the BMP180 pressure sensor. These were not all I hoped for, so I ordered a BMP280 sensor, which is supposedly an upgrade of the BMP180. Perhaps it would give me better results. As it turns out, it appears it does! I only ordered one sensor at […]
The BMP180 barometer
I have long been unhappy with the performance of the Meteostick internal barometer. Although the values it emits are usually totally acceptable, it tends to spike inexplicably multiple times a day. So, this week I finally came around to installing a new sensor, the Bosch BMP180. Its performance compared to the Meteostick can already be […]