rtl_433_to_wu

Convert rtl_433 output to weatherunderground updates

This is a simple service that listens to the output of your Acurite 5-n-1 weather sensor and uploads it to weatherunderground.com. You can find one on amazon, sometimes Costco has a 5n1 with a display for cheaper.

Installation

Hardware

• Acurite 5-n-1 weather sensor (provides rainfall, humidity, temperature, windspeed, wind direction)
• USB RTL receiver (also available on amazon)

Software

• rtl_433 to be installed.
• rtl_433 requires rtl-sdr

Other information

Rainfall totals The rainfall totals are sawtooth counts, that is, the total accumulates from the top of the hour (or day) starting at zero.

How to use

Softlink weatherd to your service directory: /etc/init.d/ or wherever. Make sure the path in it points to wherever you put your cloned folder it runs with weatherd.py start|stop|restart or sudo service weatherd start|stop|restart Requres a configuration file named weather.ini in /etc/ containing the following

[station]
id=your_station_id (This should be ALL CAPS)
pw=station_pw
test=True|False ;set to true to simply print the URI string