2. How to configure the Station.
This Station should be configured and flashed with the help of VSCODE and Platformio. So please download the firmware zip file from github and use VSCODE + Platformio to import the firmware, build it and flash it into the ESP32+LoRa board
small guide for flashing it with VSCODE
The board could get into a loop as the initial configuration is not finished. Is expected and will stop as soon as you upload the filesystem (your configuration data)
Go into /data/WxStation_conf.json file and edit:
- callsign: change "NOCALL-13" to your callsign (validated Ham Op callsign is expected)
- beacon/latitude: get your latitud from Google Maps in degrees (example 37.0123456)
- beacon/longitude: same as latitude.
- beacon/comment: for now the "Experimental LoRa APRS Wx Station" is default.
- sensors: all active by default and is expected to run them all on the first version.
NOTE
- display: is not available for editing or ecoMode yet.
- interval: 10 minutes between beacon is the recommended value as sending faster beacons won't be processed by APRS.fi.
- symbol and overlay: chosen to be LoRa Blue Circle to make APRS.fi be able to process them instead of just showing the data as a comment.
- path: for now WIDE1-1 is the only path needed, so please leave it as is.
