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Building the induino MeteoStation with 3d printed housing

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I'm also having som flatlining issues.

I just do not know if it's because of ssh tunnel timeout, or if indi_duino is crashing.
Not sure why it should, as all the values from the sensors are ok. No timeout or anything.

The MinMax error i somtimes have, but other times it's gone....
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I now run it separate from the main indiserver

1013 ? S 0:20 indiserver_weather -f /tmp/indi_weatherFIFO -p 7625
1014 ? S 0:07 \_ indi_duino
root@heidenrod-obs:/# ll /tmp/indi_weatherFIFO
prw-rw-r-- 1 heidenrod heidenrod 0 Dec 28 18:08 /tmp/indi_weatherFIFO|
root@heidenrod-obs:/#

And I do not load it up in Ekos, this stops the flat lining, nor do I connect from my mobile phone using the indi app.
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I see. You just start indiserver on different port, so you still can start the other drivers on default port?

I am testing with making a script thar runs @reboot via cron. This first starts indiserver with indififo. Then starts meteo, dome, wounderground and duscap. Then it opens a reverse tunnel to my webserver and executes. /startMETEO. sh

I have some scripts that i use to start indiserver with chaning. The server with meteostation is the last in chain, so as long as indiserver is started, those scripts works well.

I have been testing the last day or two. Mine flatlines even if I only connect to meteostation, so I'll have to do some digging
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yes I can, the meteo station has it's own FIFO file and I run the server on port 7625.
Also done the following symlink which I use only for the metetostation, and updated the meteoconfig.py file to reflect the new names.
root@heidenrod-obs:~# ll /usr/bin/indiserver*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38416 Dec 27 10:35 /usr/bin/indiserver*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    19 Dec 27 13:02 /usr/bin/indiserver_weather -> /usr/bin/indiserver*
root@heidenrod-obs:~#
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I think I found the issue I'm having.

I did not have correct settings for timeout in sshd_config

I added this
TCPKeepAlive no 
ClientAliveInterval 0
ClientAliveCountMax 1

I tells the sshd daemon to send 0 Alive packages, and not to disconnect before atleast 1 Alive package is not returned.
Should keep the tunnel alive until I close it or reboot.

Fingers crossed :)

Btw. No clouds and no IRRadiance now? @Gonzothegreat
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At the time I posted the screenshot, that was 100% correct. It was pitch black and zero clouds.
I had to go out with the family for a dinner, came back thinking I could deal with the polar alignment.... yeah right... clouds are back... typical.
If I cannot polar align the mount by Saturday night, the observatory will be closed for a few more months until I come back.
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But I did found an interesting bug, despite the Clouds percentage being at 0 and the graph showing no clouds, there is the orange top light and the bottom bar saying clouds !!!
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I've seen that to.

Looks like the flags are sometimes set wrong after a reboot. Not easy to test as my station is remote, and I cannot flash firmware remote.

In the meteosationWEB/mereoRRD_updater.py line 67-70 you have
statusVector=indi.get_vector(INDIDEVICE,"STATUS")
cloudFlag=int(statusVector.get_element("clouds").is_ok())
dewFlag=int(statusVector.get_element("dew").is_ok())
frezzingFlag=int(statusVector.get_element("frezzing").is_ok())
So it just checks the flags from the firmware.
Not sure if it's indi_duino or the firmware that sometimes gets this wrong.
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At the moment, it does not bother me too much. I go with the percentage bar and the graph. But, once day I'll look into this and see if I can come up with a fix.
So far, this meteostation is a great addition and I believe many of us should have it as it's inexpensive to build.

One think that we could add is an anemometer to the board (like in the screenshot below).

And I still do like this layout but haven't been able to reproduce it:

from indilib.org/forum/general/2614-diy-all-sky-camera.html#19602
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Yes. Wind speed would be great, as it can be dangerous for our flip top observatories with high wins!!
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ID from weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html. Example: my nearest ID is 11747 - Prostejov.

Edit meteoconfig.py:
SOUNDINGSTATION="11747"

I incorrectly entered the value of the nearest location (missing digits). When I fix it, she does not write in the log.

This worked on a table with Raspberry Pi 3 + Ubuntu Mate + breadbord.

Min Max Fail is still in the final set Raspberry Pi Zero W + Raspbian Stretch :-(
I'm not doing it, it works too. In addition, there is a poorly readable font in the charts.
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I have the same problem.
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