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can you share details of the weather station please? ive been looking into gathering wind data on the cheap...


I bought a $60 weather station from Amazon where the base station generates a JSON file which it then wants to send to its own cloud servers. I firewalled it on its own, and have an ESP32 reading the JSON file off it and then sending the individual sensor readings into Home Assistant for a visual dashboard, and into Postgres which I use for my own weather-data-wrangling (eg hasn’t rained in a couple days and no rain expected from my local weather API? turn the watering system on for the gardens)


I built mine using a Hydreon Rain Gauge sensor (RG11 in my case) and combined it with an off the shelf wind sensor from AliExpress, presumably sold by Adafruit's supplier, which closes a reed switch every rotation. Everything is powered through PoE, controlled by wESP32. I spent a couple hundred bucks at most including all the mounting hardware.

It all controls an aluminum "awning" in my house that's supposed to open above certain wind speed, close when it rains.


only vaguely related - but I've been recently trying out dagster and I'm pretty impressed so far. I've run large scale data-processing from Hadoop onwards and was expecting the usual crumminess whenever you hit and edge case.

Instead I found a system that seems to be thoughtfully designed and, crucially, easy to debug.


The welsh ones seem eerily similar to Urdu numbers. 9 (nau) & 2 (dau) are in fact identical. Welsh isn’t even an indo aryan language. But them perhaps this system may in fact be?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages?wprov=...

There's a larger proposed family of languages that combine Indo-Aryan with the families of European languages. This is also why there is a lot of overlap in European languages and Indian (I am using Indian to mean all Sanskrit / Persian derivatives spoken in the Indian subcontinent). For example, a common root is the word dio or deo, which in Hindi we see as "Deva" and in Spanish we would see "Dio", but they both sort of correspond to God and come from the PIE for the same.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSLV7t9DvN8 This is a fascinating series of lectures by Borges. Those who enjoy his erudition and his infectious love for English poetry will no doubt enjoy the investment of a few hours.


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