Introduction: Multi Task Raspberry 1 B(Personal Cloud + Weather Station)
Some time ago i remembered that there was a RPiB spare after buy a newer version .Thinking about privacy when keeping my backup files i decided to have my own cloud server. Happy with good result but not satisfied with the waste of potential from RPi i made a combo mixing a weather station + personal cloud server .
Step 1: Material List
- A RPi B (May,also, work with RPi2, RPi3,etc)
- A 7" inch 1024*600 LCD Display for Raspberry (choose screen size by yourself)
- WiFi dongle or an ethernet cable attached to RPi (Only RPi3 and newer have built-in wifi)
- Mouse and keyboard USB
Step 2: Thanks for the Ideas and Help
Notice this step is based on work of some people :
Gus :
https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-nextcloud-serv...
jimk3038 :
https://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Inte...
Many thanks to kalmat for improvements on the code : Now when there is no internet connection a big clock and callendar is displayed
https://www.instructables.com/member/Kalmat/
Step 3: Nextcloud and Weather Station Installation
These steps assumes that:
-some basics of linux are know
-Operating system raspbian stretch is already installed on RPi
-The operating system is already configured(raspi-config: SSH enabled, expanded file system to use maximum sd card space ,etc)
-IP from RPi is defined as static
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Nextcloud Installation
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Following sequences executed in terminal(From SSH or natively on RPi) ########################################################
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-gd sqlite php7.0-sqlite php7.0-curl php7.0-zip php7.0-xml php7.0-mbstring
sudo service apache2 restart
cd /var/www/html curl https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/ne... |
sudo tar -jxv
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/html/nextcloud/data
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/nextcloud/
sudo chmod 750 /var/www/html/nextcloud/data
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Now that we have finished with that we can now finally go to Nextcloud itself and begin its installation process. To begin go to your Raspberry Pi’s IP address plus /nextcloud. For example, the address I would go to is the following:
Remember to replace example IP Address with that of your Raspberry Pi’s.
192.168.1.105/nextcloud
Choose your user name and password
link to tutorial i followed : https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-nextcloud-ser...
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Weather Station installation
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Download :
https://launchpad.net/python-weather-api/trunk/0.3... ########################################################
Following sequences executed in terminal(From SSH or natively on RPi) ########################################################
tar -xvzf pywapi-0.3.8.tar.gz
cd pywapi-0.3.8
sudo python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
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Check that things work as expected
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Download and extract Weather 1.6.4.zip on /home/pi folder
next command on terminal(Not SSH connection/This time native display is needed)
cd Weather
sudo python weather.py
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Make it autostart after boot
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sudo nano /etc/rc.local
Just before the last line, which says "exit 0", add the following to lines.
cd /home/pi/Weather
sudo python weather.py &> err.log
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Attachments
Step 4: Some Notes
- Work done by kalmat has no automatic translation , i did a translation to pt-BR by hand. If someone has knowledge to work with .po files to translate would be appreciated .
- Stability is good enough. See image above (CPU and memory usage are low)
- download the APP for your smartphone and nextcloud client to desktop
- There some tweaks you can do to Apache server and PHP to improve upload rate to server (google it)
- There are other versions of weather station with background images as seen on
jimk3038 project (improved version made by kalmat )
