[GCARC] FW: Pi Zero for weather station, Bea KE2GLJ

[Jeff One]

Forwarding this message for KE2GLJ.

 

D. Jeffrey Garth

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From: Bee Taylor [mailto:btayl13 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, October 5, 2025 12:29
To: w2mmdgcarc at gmail.com
Subject: Pi Zero for weather station, Bea KE2GLJ

 

Hello,

 

     Yesterday I was at the clubhouse for Tech Saturday, and I talked with Jon Pearce about helping set something up for the weather station to transmit APRS. I have direwolf compiled on a Pi Zero now, however like we discussed it only has micro usb ports and I couldn't find any adapters to usb-a at my house. I also was curious about the format that the weather station exports its data as so I can configure a few of the settings. Looking at some tutorials and reading over the direwolf documentation I made a quick beacon configuration that can be added onto, which looks like this "PBEACON delay=1 every=30 lat=39^43.12N long=75^12.60W symbol="weather station" commentcmd="tail -1 data.txt"" I pulled the lat and long of the clubhouse from the aprs.fi website, W2MMD-D . The commentcmd line will just add into the comment section of the packet whatever data is pulled using the command. Thank you!

 

- Bea, KE2GLJ