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Thunderboard Feb 23, 2021 10:42:57 GMT -8

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Post by ghuber2756 on Feb 23, 2021 10:42:57 GMT -8

Good afternoon,

Are we able to just plug in a thunderboard into the IC2 connectors on the skyweather board? I was looking at the new kickstarter, but i do not have a need for the wireless / solar, as my skyweather is outside outside with power. I was looking through the code to figure out if it was possible, just curious if there was something else I needed to do.

Thanks,
Greg

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Thunderboard Feb 24, 2021 20:46:47 GMT -8

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Post by SDL on Feb 24, 2021 20:46:47 GMT -8

Yes, but adding the ThunderBoard is tricky as it really, really likes an unloaded I2C bus. It gets flaky if there are too many things on the I2C bus.

If you can get it to work, then it is relatively straight forward to add it into the SkyWeather2 software.

There is another reason why we built a separate solar powered lightning sensor, however. And that is to get it away from the noise source of the Raspberry Pi. 50cm doesn't seem to do it.

10m though? You bet.

BP

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Thunderboard Feb 25, 2021 5:31:51 GMT -8

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Post by ghuber2756 on Feb 25, 2021 5:31:51 GMT -8

That does make sense. I had played with a DFrobot thunderboard a while ago, to make a lightening detector by the pool, ran fine on a Arduino mega, but when you ran it on a WIFI chip it would never work due to the interference. Guess you are twisting my arm to get another kickerstarter.

Thanks for the input.

SDL Global Moderator Posts: 5,655 Raspberry Pi: Yes Other Device: PC, arduino, beagleBone	Thunderboard Feb 25, 2021 15:04:17 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by SDL on Feb 25, 2021 15:04:17 GMT -8 No twisting involved. Just sadly gained experience and hair loss trying to figure all this stuff out! BP

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