Automated Home Weather Station (Satellite Image Collector)

This started as a home weather station project, so far I’ve gotten as far as the satellite image downloading system. Adding local weather sensors will probably be a future video. So far, the system is set up to automatically receive NOAA and METEOR-M2 satellite transmissions and display the weather maps in a web panel. Along the way I had to rebuilt my satellite antenna, upgrade my Raspberry Pi computer, and get a bigger waterproof housing to fit all the equipment. Some resources I used for this project include: -QFH antenna guide: -Instructables guide: -Code for automating the entire process: -Reddit and the helpful users on and Some issues I ran into: -Raspberry Pi’s don’t have a clock... so if you’re doing this off-grid or somewhere without always-on internet you
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