Dual Screen Netatmo Weather Station

Netatmo Weather Station is a module that measures your indoor comfort by providing vital information such as temperature, humidity, air quality, and CO2, alerting you when you need to air out your home to bring down its pollution levels.

One of the Netatmo limitations is that you need to use a smartphone to view the collected information by the station. To solve this, Barzok had developed an Arduino-based screen to display the weather data remotely, and published a full guide to build it in this instructable.

Barzok’s first attempt was a stand-alone device inside weather station using an Arduino UNO, a real time clock, a temperature and pressure sensor, and a 2.8” screen. It displays the time, pressure history over the past 6 days, and temperature as digits and as a gauge bar.

The next experiment was connecting the Arduino UNO with Netatmo API through an Ethernet shield and displaying the data on the screen. The connection was the difficult part as the Arduino was not powerful enough to establish an HTTPS connection and receive valuable information from Netatmo servers.

The solution uses a PHP client on a web server, which connects with Netatmo servers, and then the Arduino retrieves the data using the standard HTTP.

The final version of the station consists of an Arduino Mega, two 2.8” inches screens, and an ESP8266 Wifi module. There is no limit of the Arduino type and screen size, you can use your model with minor changes of the code. Barzok also made a custom circuit that transforms the 9V input voltage into a 5V to power the Arduino and 3.3V to power the ESP8266.

The diagram presents the process, the Netatmo module gathers the weather information and uploads them to the Netatmo servers. Then a PHP application runs on remote server and retrieves the information from the Netatmo servers and turns it into simple text data. Finally the Arduino receives the simple texts with the ESP8266 module and displays them on the two screens.

The two screens displays different information, the left one provides the real time data received from the Netatmo sensors about temperature, pressure, humidity, rain and CO2. The other screen shows the time and date, pressure history, and 3 days weather forecast.

You can find more instructions to build this project with detailed description about the code, schematics, box design at the project page.

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