No longer do you need to rely on external APIs to view and store weather data from your own personal weather station. I walk you through using a Raspberry Pi and USB SDR with rtl_433, MQTT, and Home Assistant to grab and graph your data.



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00:00 Intro
00:36 Raspberry Pi Parts
01:47 Install prereqs on Pi
03:37 Install rtl_sdr on Pi
05:53 Install rtl_433 on Pi
08:05 Check that installed packages and receiver works
09:05 First traffic received
11:02 Install MQTT on Home Assistant and create user
13:46 Start sending MQTT packets from Pi to Home Assistant
17:48 Check Home Assistant for MQTT Packets
20:00 Create sensors in Home Assistant
26:08 Build Grafana Graphs
34:35 What else can we do with the sensor data?
35:26 Wrap Up!


Commands used. Watch the video for context on where to use them.


Install rtl_sdr
mkdir sdr
cd sdr
sudo aptget update
sudo aptget install git cmake libusb1.00dev buildessential
git clone git://git.osmocom.org/rtlsdr.git
cd rtlsdr
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../ DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON DDETACH_KERNEL_DRIVER=ON
make
sudo make install
ldconfig

Install rtl_433
cd ../../
git clone https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433.git
cd rtl_433
mkdir build
cd build && cmake ../
make
sudo make install

Running the program
rtl_433 f 915M

Sensor yaml: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/t8qnRbtyt2/



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