This started as a home weather station project, so far I've gotten as far as the satellite image downloading system. Adding local weather sensors will probably be a future video. So far, the system is set up to automatically receive NOAA and METEORM2 satellite transmissions and display the weather maps in a web panel. Along the way I had to rebuilt my satellite antenna, upgrade my Raspberry Pi computer, and get a bigger waterproof housing to fit all the equipment.

Some resources I used for this project include:

QFH antenna guide: http://usradioguy.com/noaaaptrecept...

Instructables guide: https://www.instructables.com/Raspber...

Code for automating the entire process: https://github.com/jekhokie/raspberry...

Reddit and the helpful users on   / amateursatellites   and   / rtlsdr  

Some issues I ran into:

Raspberry Pi's don't have a clock... so if you're doing this offgrid or somewhere without alwayson internet you'll need an addon clock module.

My SDR doesn't seem to work with rtl_fm's T option, so I had to manually enable and disable the Biastee as described here: https://www.rtlsdr.com/rtlsdrblog...