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WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS Receiver - Overview and Quick Guide
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WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS Receiver - Overview

The WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS is the newest base unit - receiver for the WeatherDuino Pro2 weather station system.
Compared to the previous Pro2 base units - receivers (which will continue to be available and supported for long time), it greatly expandes its power and brings new interesting features, some of them as we will see, with the future in mind.

The microcontroller was changed to a ATmega 2560, with 256K of RAM and 8K of SRAM. The bigger memory its important to accommodate the larger size of the new software and leave enough space to future enhancements. The bigger memory is also important to advanced users: The new Pro2 PLUS board have 2 GPIO ports plus 1 GPO port (up to 50mA) which can be used to control external devices, as heaters, watering systems, or whatever the user will want, by just writing simple routines, which can use any of the internal variables containing weather data.

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The default display was also changed from the 20x4 LCD to a 2.8" - 320x240 colour TFT display with touch control.
The screen layout was designed to have the same look and feel, of the already existing Wireless Display units, whose software has also been upgraded to support the new functionalities provided by the Pro2 PLUS. One more time backward compatibility with existing hardware, was taken seriously. All existing transmitter units will work with the Pro2 PLUS, even without any software upgrade.

The full seven extra sensors supported by the DAVIS system, can now be seen at once in the screen. By just touching on the right or left side of the display you can switch to other screens, as the one that shows all the info from up to four Soil Temperature / Moisture sensors, and Leaf / Wetness sensors. But there is more: Double press a push button and instantly you will see a graph of the last 12 hours, for Atmospheric Pressure, Temperature, Humidity, Rain, Wind Speed and Gust.

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A screen saver is also included... after a user defined timeout, you can just blank the screen, or choose to have a nice clock displayed with big digits, showing current date and time.

By talk about date and time. The Pro2 PLUS will automatically adjust the clock, whenever there is changes in the Summer Time, no matter the country you live. Also, if you enable its WiFi connection, the system clock will be automatically synchronised with a user defined Time Server, using the NTP protocol.

The new WiFi feature, is not just to synchronize the time. For everyone that would like to have a record of their meteorological data, but don't need or want to have a PC or a Raspberry running 24 hours a day, the Pro2 PLUS can work as an autonomous unit, and upload your weather station data to WUnderground, by just using your home WiFi network.
Released on March 2017, the v2.0 software introduced a new functionality, which can be very useful for those who want to run a system remotely. Point your browser to the IP address of the WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS unit, and you will get a webpage with
real time data, and state of your weather station.

A final line about functionalities. There are rumours, that a team of developers is working on a Air Quality Monitor for the WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS system. If those rumours will become true, the WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS will risk to become the first weather station having integrated support for Air Quality (2.5ppm) measurement.


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WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS Receiver - Overview and Quick Guide - by werk_ag - 28-11-2016, 00:34
RE: WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS Receiver - Overview - by werk_ag - 28-11-2016, 19:27
RE: WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS Receiver - Overview and Quick Guide - by werk_ag - 31-03-2017, 19:55
RE: WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS Receiver - Overview and Quick Guide - by werk_ag - 20-01-2018, 03:49
RE: WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS Receiver - Overview and Quick Guide - by werk_ag - 22-07-2018, 01:10



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