Building a weather system with Jan Goolsbey

The CircuitPython Show

Jan Goolsbey joins the show for his second visit. He shares how he built a weather monitoring system using sensors, weather APIs, display devices, CircuitPython, and Adafruit IO.

Jan was previously a guest on episode 33.

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Show Notes

00:00 Intro

00:16 Welcome Jan

00:28 The start of the weather system

2:09 How to solve the corrosion problem

4:50 Internet connected sensors with a PyPortal and Adafruit IO

7:43 Adding external weather conditions from an API to Adafruit IO

9:47 Evolving into a combined weather system

12:40 Discovering Apple WeatherKit integration in Adafruit IO+

14:00 Version 1 of the weather system architecture

14:52 What were the challenges in the new architecture?

17:20 Multiple display devices and Adafruit IO throttling

20:55 Version 2 architecture: Remix

22:34 The user interfaces

27:09 What’s next?

29:09 Wrap-up

Correction: Jan referred to Jerry Needell as working at Apple instead of Adafruit.

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View Jan’s projects on the Adafruit Playground.