There is the official RPi touch screen display available You can reduce the content of the standard webpages by using the mobile ones - they work pretty well - or customise the mobile ones to your own likings perhaps and have the wife use her phone instead of the console!
The outdoor sensors have, I believe, been read using a generic radio dongle - check the wiki - but you still need pressure from the indoor console or some other source (also indoor temp and humidity). I have my rpi in a drawer also - but also run a webserver on the rpi, and just access the webpages from any pc or phone's browser over the network. I run the rpi without a display and access the command line interface via ssh over the network - cant be bothered to run the rpi GUI. On Friday, 23 September 2016 15:42:09 UTC+3, [email protected] wrote: > My WeeWX runs on a RPi attached to a Fine Offset WH1080 and is connected > by HDMI cable to a TV in the bedroom. I mostly refer to a web page to check > on the weather but my wife uses the the console but often has trouble > reading the dim display and sometimes gets it to light up inadvertently and > set the thing off beeping indicating that it's ready to make changes to > various settings. I tend to use the TV when doing some work on the Pi -- it > takes forever to switch between TV and HDMI it's unreadable at a distance. > > (A skin designed for distant viewing would be interesting; perhaps > forcibly lowering the screen resolution would do the needful; I haven't > tried) > > What would be nice, I think, is something like a 7-10 inch touchscreen on > the back of which the Pi could be mounted, which would would be dark until > touched. Then perhaps I could just put the console in a drawer and drill a > hole to feed the USB cable out. This might also solve the problem of the > Pi's flashing lights.Yes, I was dumb enough to put the Pi in a nice clear > acrylic case but my other half wasn't impressed after dark and so it lives > behind the TV under a pair of black underpants :-) > > I looked at a few screens and nothing jumped out at me. > > As it happens I have an Nexus 7 Android tablet which may be approaching > retirement (depending on whether its prospective replacement is worth the > upgrade; we'll know soon) and which I could use on a stand -- I'd have to > rig up a way of recharging it on a timer to avoid charging it continuously. > It needs to be turned on by pressing a slightly stiff button on the side, > so not quite as convenient as an Apple style home button, but a lot faster > than waiting for the Sony TV to warm up and switch to HDMI (and which still > needs either a keyboard or mouse). > > Anyone got any recommendations for a replacement console? > > As an aside, it would be great if it was possible to plug a dongle into > the Pi to replace the FO console entirely. I wonder what the chances are of > someone being able to make such a thing? > > Related Q. I've also wondered about buying a 2nd system as a possible > workaround for the occasional USB lockup to which the FO is prone -- to > avoid losing data (and to have some spare parts). Is there any reason two > consoles couldn't be tuned to pick up data? If not it would be great to be > able to disconnect one and reset it and then connect the second and have > WeeWX dedupe overlapping records. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
