#idea OpenTempescope

Products & Technology Wio Series
#1

Tempescope is a physical display that recreates the weather forecasted inside a box. Instructions for building the box are straightforward: search google for github kenkawakenkenke tempescope wiki

Are several control examples online for iPhone and Raspberry Pi 3. I am thinking Wio Link could be perfect.

Wio-Link can use IFTTT to set up triggers on the weather for a given day. Then turn on and off relays to the 12V water pump and mist generator. Lastly, animate some RGB lamps for sunrise, lightning.

#2

Sounds nice, looking forward to see your project!

#3

Hi Wassabi,
Sounds Great idea, recently I made a weather forecast box which can talk using Rpi3, and I found a website named openweathermap where you can get the weather info freely, maybe you’ll need it too.

About the trigger, You can use IFTTT and DoButton as well as a Grove Sensor, For example, install a sensor on your door (PIR sensor, Touch Sensor and so on), so that when you want to go out it’ll update the weather automatically.

Regards
Jiankai.li

#4

I went a slightly different way. I used the Advanced User Guide and reprogrammed my wio link from the Arduino IDE. Then pulled in a wunderground library for the ESP8266 to get the weather.

Resources:
OpenTempescope - github.com/kenkawakenkenke/temp … pescope%3F
Wio Advanced Users Guide - github.com/Seeed-Studio/Wio_Lin … User-Guide
Arduino ESP8266 Library - github.com/esp8266/Arduino
Weather Station Library - github.com/squix78/esp8266-weather-station
Lightning Animation - github.com/jamesabruce/cloudlamp
WiFi Manager - github.com/tzapu/WiFiManager

#5

I am still working on this and nearing completion. Basic animations are: Sunny, Cloudy, Raining, Thunderstorm, and Fog. The thunderstorm animation will also make small tornado in the chamber! :smiley:

Debugged:
* Wifi Connect

  • Wunderground Weather Parse

  • Temp -> LED Color

  • Lightning Effects

  • Fan Control

  • Wifi AP for initial wireless config (using smartphone)

  • Set weather location and UTC offset during config

  • Time sensitive forecast (today's forecast is in the past at night)

Issues:

  • wio link resets after a dozen minutes or so, WD timeout?

  • Wifi Credentials are sometimes forgotten through power cycle, may need to re-write the save process to use the eeprom

Todo:

  • Hardware: Atomizer.  Tested ok on breadboard

  • Hardware: Water Pump, have the parts

  • Hardware: Configuration / Mode select button, the built in config button on D0 seems to be tied into the reset circuit if held too long.

  • Software: Elevated forecast, reads tonight and tomorrow, displays worse of the two

  • Software: Demo Mode (cycle through temperture colors while cycling through clouds / lightning / vortex)

  • Software: Party Mode (Fog with sound reactive lightning, black alt color)