Gents
is seem a subject where a lot of users are interested in. Some explanation what I build so you can take advantage of this information
First little explanation why the AAG/SOLO from my point of view.
I build a lot of weather station by my self but last year I made the step going remote
For me, AAG/SOLO is a proven technology. And seen on many remote observatories.
You can grep the information of the weather station via an API call.
“http://192.168.x.x/cgi-bin/cgiLastData”
This is what I use. Within node-red where I build my Observatory Control System (OCS)
Node-RED tutorial (for Dragonfly and CloudWatcher SOLO) – LUNATICOASTRO.COM
(What is node-red see https://nodered.org/) To avoid configurations in my border router I use zerotier (https://www.zerotier.com/) to connect to my observatory over the internet. My plan coming week is to upgrade to the last version of SOLO (with native MQTT Support) and will also install zerotier on the SOLO so I can access the graphs also at home.
There the OCS is running on a raspberry it has become the heart of the observatory, by controlling all equipment based on node-red.
But this can be also Domoticz or HomeAssistant as Jose suggested. It is what you prefer.
I measure for example for power outage but also internet via the network etc, OCS and the Roof are on UPS.
Today I send the weather information also to my MQTT broker via the internet to my home where I load the information into graphana. The reason for this is to have more understanding of the sky temperature over time and better tweak the sky threshold which can be different per session.
The blue line is when its clear in my case based AAG SAFE
below how to push the information via MQTT. Node-Red with MQTT nodes.
some additional information about the new version SOLO
https://lunaticoastro.com/solo-cloud-watcher/version-history/
https://lunaticoastro.com/solo-cloud-watcher/updating-the-solo-v31/
It would be handy that we have in the dragscript also the possibility to send out MQTT messages to control other things, but that is other discussion I think
The cool thing is that Voyager use the AAG/SOLO information on very smart way which is not see in other programs, see the weather tab in the setup screen of voyager
So take your advantage
Chris