This is a Pi3B based web server and BME280 environment sensor placed outdoors in an AREDN mesh node to serve out location environment statistics of temperature, pressure, and humidity.
- Pi 3B (best balance of capability, ethernet for mesh node, and low power consumption)
- i2c enabled on pi
- smbus for BME280 test C program
- Python3 and pip3
- Flask, flask_sqlalchemy, SQLite
- nginx (optional, web proxy)
- gunicorn (optional, lightweight wsgi for productionalizing the app)
- Run
bme280_job.pyon a cron schedule to record periodic readings. For example, this is my crontab:
*/5 * * * * cd /home/pi/webapp && /usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/webapp/bme280_job.py >> /var/log/bme280.log 2>&1
