GPRS Weather Station

GPRS for Davis weather station using a BeagleBone Black and Debian custom firmware.

The project is for my local paragliding club to set up a Davis weather station in a remote location with internet access.

See: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IALNWICK10

Hardware:

• Davis Vantage Pro2 Wireless Weather Station (6152)
• Davis Complete System Shelter for all weather station components (7724)
• Davis USB Data Logger
• BeagleBone Black
• USB to Serial cable FTDI TTL-232R-3V3 (optional)
• USB A micro cable
• USB A mini cable
• USB hub
• Huawei 3G modem (E3531)
• 4G/3G SIM card
• Sunix 10A 12V/24V solar charge regulator
• 20W 12V Photonic universe solar panel
• 12v 7Ah Sealed lead acid rechargeable battery

Software:

• Debian custom firmware bone-debian-9.2-console-armhf-2017-12-08-2gb.img.xz
• WeeWX open source weather software