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A Weather Station Dashboard Without Weather Station Hardware - Using Node-RED and Open-Meteo

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  I've always liked having weather information available on my various Raspberry Pi and Node-RED dashboards. Temperature, humidity, wind, rainfall, barometric pressure and solar radiation. All the information you would expect from a reasonably sophisticated personal weather station. But I had a particular location I wanted to monitor where I didn't actually have a weather station. That got me thinking, could I build a Node-RED dashboard that provides much of the same information as a personal weather station, without buying hardware or subscribing to a commercial weather service? As it turns out, the answer is yes and the result is a new open-source project I've published on GitHub. GitHub Repository: https://github.com/n3bkv/open-meteo-node-red-dashboard The Idea My goal was fairly simple. I wanted something that looked and behaved like a traditional weather station dashboard, with current conditions, trends, historical information and some basic weather analytics. I also ...

Build a Central N3FJP Field Day Log Server With Local DHCP and GPS Time

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Centralized Field Day logging is one of those things that looks simple until the network hiccups, the generator burps, Windows decides it is “helping,” or one laptop thinks it is 2019 and another thinks it is next Tuesday. My club was looking for an easy-to-use solution for FD 2026 that would tie all the logging computers in our main tent together to simplify log submission and track our total progress during the event. But past attempts with a logging server brought to light many issues, especially individual station computers locking up when there were server or network issues. The goal is simple: all operators log to one reliable N3FJP server with consistent local IPs and accurate time without internet access. Here is a practical way to build a central N3FJP Field Day logging server that does not depend on the internet: One Windows server laptop or mini-PC that runs the N3FJP master FD log. The server also hands out local IP addresses using a local DHCP Server for Windows. All Field...

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