Jan 27 2025 31 mins 9
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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