Using Beagle Weather Cape with OSBo

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I am looking to add “weather station” type capability to the OSBo- that would be to monitor temp/humidity/pressure/wind speed, etc.

There is a weather cape for the Beagle

http://elinux.org/CircuitCo:BeagleBone_Weather

This would add humidity, temp, barometric pressure, and light sensors- I would just need to add wind speed as an external analog sensor. Plus there is prewritten open source code to interface with each of these sensors.

The weather cape only uses 4 pins- power, ground, I2C2_SCL, and
I2C2_SDA

From the OSBo manual, I understand that these could all be shared with the open sprinkler module?

then it would just be a mechanical considerations to install. My though was to run four wires external to the OSBo, and mount the weather cape externally in the box, or in it’s own separate box so the sensor would get proper readings.

Thoughts? Does this sound doable?

Thanks!

Wayne

P.S., another way to go I’ve found is “1-wire” weather station sensors. Some sort of analog multiplexing? Still checking that out.
http://oww.sourceforge.net

[Ray]

then it would just be a mechanical considerations to install. My though was to run four wires external to the OSBo, and mount the weather cape externally in the box, or in it’s own separate box so the sensor would get proper readings.

This sounds like a feasible solution.

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