Power & ISP Outages While at work, I received a notification at 14:35 local time from my power company that there was an outage in my area. I then received a notification at 15:50 that the power was back up. I also received notification from my ISP reporting an outage at 15:45 local due to the power outage, which is weird, but after I got home, I could see multiple occurrences of losing connectivity to my ISP in the UDM. ...
There is a lot of data that I want to collect that my sensors can’t. With automation and machine learning application being the goal, I want to gather as much data as I possibly can to really create a complete picture of events in the yard. Snow events are one example of that, so that’s where I started. I again used Python, FastAPI, and uvicorn to define some API endpoints on the same Pi that runs my Ecowitt ingest API. Just like the Ecowitt ingest, I’ll make this API a service also. The difference with this one though is that when the endpoint is requested in the browser, an HTML form is presented. ...
Today I’m going to set up my local weather station in my yard that will feed data to my database that stores the forecast data I’m pulling from NWS. NWS gives me projected future data, but I’m not able to see what’s happening in my yard, until now. Down the road, I’ll perform some analysis comparing forecast data to observed data which will be useful for future automation and machine learning. ...