A 3d printed diy weather station with anemometer and direction vane. Others sensors will be available soon...
Yet another weather station, but that one use a magnetometer for the direction vane and a rotary encoder with an IR optocoupler for the anemometer. It runs with an ESP board and Esphome software
The direction vane use an 1.2$ HMC5883L or QMC5883L Magnetometer and a magnet. The simplest is the best !
I've made a precise calibration script if needed to correct hard & soft iron effects with ellipsoid fitting.
The anemometer use a rotary encoder with an 0.6$ IR optocoupler.
The openscad script (all parametric) output all needed informations to calculate the wind speed except the correction/friction factor which depends on your ball bearing. (mine is 5 and it's a good starting point for futher calibration)
[Wind speed in m/s] = 2PI * [anemometer mid cup to axle lenght in m] * [revolution per seconds] * [unknown correction factor]
anemometer mid cup to axle lenght = 72.5 mm => 72.5/1000 = 0.0725 m for R
rotary encoder pulse per revolution : 36
revolution per seconds = pulses /36 /60
S = 2PI * 0.0725 * pulses /36 /60 = 0.00021089395
Speed m/s => Km/h : *3.6 => 0.00075921822
[unknown correction factor or friction] : mine is ~5 => 0.00075921822 *5 = 0.0037960911
You must paste that value in "pulse_meter" section of esphome.yaml
filters:
- multiply: 0.0037960911
