Raspberry Pi Weather Station

  • 30/10/2018
  • One-minute read

Well it’s been a little over two week and the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B weather station has held up; figured now would be a good time to go a little deeper into the setup. Telegraf has been solid in ingesting my JSON documents periodically, lets have a look at it’s SensorTag configuration:

# cat /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d/sensor_tag.conf
[[inputs.exec]]
 command = "cat /sensor_tag.json"
 data_format = "json"
 name_suffix = "_sensor_tag"
 interval = "60s"

This telegraf configuration inserts the output of /sensor_tag.json every 60 seconds into InfluxDB.

In order to keep the JSON document up to date I have cron executing a python script every 60 seconds:

# crontab -l | grep sensor
* * * * * /root/sensor_tag.py A0:??:??:??:??:??

sensor_tag.py is a slightly modified version of my SensorTag code on Github .

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