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jman

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Posted: 05:04pm 15 Jul 2016

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YAWD = Yet Another weather Display

My new weather display this time using an Explorer 64 PCB and Matherp's new
ILI9341 enhanced driver.

The weather information is from the forecast.io webservice they allow a huge 1000 requests per day. The data arrives as a rather larger Json file.
Taking a lead from Addafruit (and their PHP scrips) i am using a webserver to download and parse the Json file doing it this way makes sorting and display the data really easy (you can use any web server that supports PHP most do). The internal data is from a modified Sonoff device that controls my Aircon (topic for another post) this uploads the data to the thingspeak website and the thing.php script downloads the Json file. As my PHP skills are non existant the PHP is not the best but it does the job quite well. Matherp's new ILI9341 driver works a treat and is the main reason for this update. Now we have a bmp background with the text overlayed. Included in the attached zip is the Basic,PHP,Icons and background

I changed the SD Card holder on the back of the LCD to allow me to plug
a SD card in that did not stick out the side as this did not allow mounting
in the wall plate.

Internals

A video of the device in use
WeatherDisplay Video

A few pics of the unit working

2016-07-16_021648_WeatherDisplay.zip

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JmanEdited by jman 2016-07-17

Zonker

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Posted: 06:44pm 15 Jul 2016

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Wow Jman..!! I had no idea that all that could fit int a wall box..!
Nice looking, well planned out display graphics and sections..!!

Awesome project fine Sir..!

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Posted: 11:16pm 15 Jul 2016

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Jman

Please can you provide a link to that SDcard slot. That is a GREAT mod

jman

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Posted: 12:30am 16 Jul 2016

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matherp said Jman

Please can you provide a link to that SDcard slot. That is a GREAT mod

Hi Sure

First link allows single item purchase second link minimum purchase
quantity is 5

Link 1

Link 2

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Jman

OA47

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Posted: 12:20pm 16 Jul 2016

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Great project Jman, I am very impressed. Can you tell me how you have powered the unit and kept that part concealed?
Graeme

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Posted: 12:37pm 16 Jul 2016

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Nice job. Well done !!!

There are 10 kinds of people in the world.
Those that understand binary and those that don't.

jman

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Posted: 02:25pm 18 Jul 2016

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OA47 said Great project Jman, I am very impressed. Can you tell me how you have powered the unit and kept that part concealed?
Graeme

Hi
Luckly for those of us who reside in New Zealand and Australia the mains wiring
to all light switchs includes both the Live and Netural so i used a USB outlet desgined to be clipped into a switch panel and left it in the wall.

They look like this

Attached is the spec sheet for the module

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Jman

2016-07-19_002419_88USBM_installation_sheet_Logix.pdf

jman

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Posted: 11:11pm 20 Jul 2016

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Small bug fix

Stop lcd driver crash with more than 5 lines of weather info.
Windy icon was been dispalyed as balnk icon

2016-07-21_091033_WeatherWall-TBS.zip

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Jman

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