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Checking the weather with the Wolfram Language + Raspberry Pi

Posted 12 years ago
This post shows how to use a weather station module with the Wolfram Language on a Raspberry Pi.
To recreate this experiment you will need the following hardware (in addition to the Raspberry Pi itself):




First configure your Raspberry Pi for I2C interface support as described in the ReadMe.pdf from the manufacturer.
Next turn off your Raspberry Pi and connect the Weather Station board to the 26 pin interface. Turn your Pi back on and check that the device is detected:
 
 > sudo i2cdetect -y 1
      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
 00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
 10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
 20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
 30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
 40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 4e --
 50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --


The Weather Station requires root privilege for access so the Wolfram Language or Mathematica needs to be started as root for this experiment.
In a terminal start the Wolfram Language using the following command (as root):
> sudo wolfram
Wolfram Language (Raspberry Pi Pilot Release)
Copyright 1988-2013 Wolfram Research
Information & help: wolfram.com/raspi
In[1]:=

First we open the device:
In[1]:= obj = DeviceOpen["RaspberryPiWeatherStation"]
Out[1]= DeviceObject[{RaspberryPiWeatherStation, 1}]

Next we can read the current temperature as measured by the board:
In[2]:= DeviceRead[obj, "Temperature"]
Out[2]= 25 degrees Celsius

Or the relative humidity:
In[3]:= DeviceRead[obj, "Humidity"]
Out[3]= 30 percent

And also the barometric pressure:
In[4]:= DeviceRead[obj, "Pressure"]
Out[4]= 993 hectopascals
POSTED BY: Arnoud Buzing
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The web4robot company and web site are defunct, but here is a copy of that ReadMe.pdf in case it is useful.

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POSTED BY: Ilian Gachevski
Posted 6 years ago

Link to ReadMe.pdf is broken.

POSTED BY: Teemu Ahola
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