Fastapi

Tomorrow I’ve got some fertilizer arriving, so I wanted to expand the manual event logging service so I can track the fertilizer application and other things as well. Here is the first post about setting the service up. And here is the repo on my GitHub. In a nutshell, this is a Python script running as a service using Uvicorn and FastAPI to present HTML forms at the specified endpoints. When the form is submitted, the data is inserted into the appropriate table in the database. ...

Alright, so we’re adding more sensors to the stack! I went with more Ecowitt sensors because they’ll just connect to the existing console and send data through the existing pipeline. Hardware I’m going to start with the WH57 lightning strike detector. I’ve selected this sensor to pair with an AQI sensor to build a home brew wildfire detection and alerting system. The lightning strike detector will detect strikes up to 25 miles out. The physical installation is easy and it comes with the mount and hardware necessary, just add batteries. ...

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. Check out the repo on GitHub 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. ...