September 26, 2019 Bohdan Lechnowsky

How-To: Build a Weather Station With Your SBC for $20

For this project, we'll suggest the ODROID-N2. However, this project can be modified to work with any single board computer that supports I2C. Links to instructions for a few SBCs from the ODROID line are found below.

Parts list:

Instructions:

Click here for instructions for the ODROID-N2

Additional Boards:

ODROID-C0 - Click here for instructions

The C0 Connector Kit is recommended to make connections easier

ODROID-C1+ - Click here for instructions
ODROID-C2 - Click here for instructions
Raspberry Pi - Very similar to the instructions for the ODROID-C series as the GPIO pins needed are the same in this case
ASUS Tinker Board 2GB / Tinker Board S - Very similar to the instructions for the ODROID-C series as the GPIO pins needed are the same in this case
ODROID-XU4

Click here for instructions without the XU4 Shifter Shield (connections will be a bit more difficult as the GPIO pins have a different pitch on the ODROID-XU4 than they do on the Weather Board 2)

Click here for instructions using the XU4 Shifter Shield (recommended to provide proper voltages and GPIO pitch to easily interface with the Weather Board 2)

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Prasath - May 24, 2021
Hey Jerry, I was looking for exactly that. Could you please share your code.

Jim Belfiore - November 27, 2020
I just wanted to say thanks for posting the example, and the comment that this should work with any SBC.

I recently picked a number of 1GB Rock64 boards that were being liquidated through another vendor for between $8-$15. I hadn’t done anything with GPIO projects before, and have been building simple home security / monitoring devices with cheap USB cameras and Armbian. The Weather Board 2 looked like a perfect add to monitor environmental conditions. It took me a little bit of learning to adapt your example, but once I figured out that needed to use pins 27 and 28 for I2C1 (SDA,SCL, respectively), everything worked perfectly. I’m definitely picking up more of these Weather Boards!

Best regards,

Jim

Jerry - October 21, 2019
I have modified the qt_weather station code to work with a directly attached Weather Board 2 (on an Odroid-N2) if someone is interested.

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