Weatherstation for Bogeraasen, Kongsvinger, Norway

This website summarises weather data logged by a FineOffset weather station which is downloaded to a Raspberry Pi credit card sized computer.

Communication between the Pi and the weather station is handled by the very polished and highly customisable Weewx software. Weewx downloads a data record from the weatherstation every minute and stores it in a database on the Pi. It then creates graphs and webpages and uploads these to the website every 5 minutes, and also to Weather Underground.

This website uses Bootstrap to deal with most of the layout and presentation.

Pi-setup:

RaspPi Model B Rev 2 256Mb
Powered USB-hub

Webcam

Last summer (July 2012) I added a new webcam. It's a wireless IP camera (D-Link DCS-930L) intended for indoor use, but I have mounted it outdoors in a sheltered area on the terrace. Against all odds it survived last winters freezing temperatures, and hopefully it will last this coming winter too.

Status august 2015: The camera has now been in operation for 3 years without any problems.
Status july 2019: The camera is dead. I think it did very well surviving 7 cold norwegian winters.

A new ip-camera of unknown brand, with higher resolution, and intended for outdoor use, is now in operation.

Scripts used on this site

Bootstrap-skin originated from Ampelmann, over at www.dajda.net
NOAA-based reports, from Murry Conarroe @ Wildwood Weather
SteelSeries Gauges, from SandaySoft

I had to make my own weewx-template for the tags needed: realtimegauges.txt.tmpl (Feel free to copy and modify to your own needs)

Nivo Slider jQuery plugin for the webcam-sequences.

Changelog

16.06.2024: New webcam: Unifi G4 Instant. The webpage updates every second hour
20.01.2024: The Weather Station has stopped working.
06.05.2021: The extra Raspberry Pi running MotionEyeOS is out of the loop.
21.02.2021: Added new page for historic highs and lows for today
17.08.2019: New webcam with better resolution (hd), plus additional RaspberryPi4 running MotionEyeOS
01.07.2019: Webcam died, and timelapses has come to an end.
07.08.2017: Refresh interval on pictures from camera are down to once every hour
12.08.2015: Added timelapse video on the webcam-page
25.05.2015: Made a small template for the layout I use.
04.05.2015: Upgraded from version 2.6.4 to version 3.1.0 of Weewx.
21.08.2014: Image-sequences at the webcam-page is not operational anymore due to the harddrive failure.
20.08.2014: Harddisk failure. Lost data for the last couple of weeks in august.
09.07.2014: Upgraded from weewx-2.5.0 to weewx-2.6.4
28.12.2013: Made availiable my Weewx-template for the SteelSeries Gauges (see above)
08.12.2013: Added timestamp on the images in the webcam-sequences using ExifTool
01.12.2013: Added image-sequences at the webcam-page
24.11.2013: Added SteelSeries Gauges
14.11.2013: Totally remake of webpages. Switched to Bootstrap.
11.10.2013: Moved from Windows to Linux.
26.07.2012: New wireless ip-cam to replace the old webcam.
06.10.2011: Added page for detailed reports, based on the generated NOAA-files.
21.09.2011: Added webcam for weather images.
19.09.2011: Weatherstation up and running for the first time.

Running Cumulus for Windows, by Sandaysoft.
Webpages based on the Weather-Display Carterlake AJAX/PHP templates