2018-03-07, 07:41 AM
Has anyone tried to interface one of those AS3935 lightning detector devices to Open Plotter/Signal K?
I've been using them with Arduinos but since they can communicate via SPI or I2C I don't see any reason you couldn't interface with a Raspi or even make a wireless module with an ESP32 although the libraries I have are for Arduino (Tested and 2 devices functional) and a python script for the Raspi. (I haven't tested it yet) They basically send a warning signal, number of strikes and approximate distance although they seem to try to track the distance to the storm's front edge rather than the distance of the actual strike which technically is better because that's where the closest potential for lightning would be. Max distance is 40 km or 25 miles although I've checked mine against some online lightning maps and got hits a little further than that
If not would anyone be interested in something like that? It should be easy to set it up to trigger a warning and send to a dashboard to log strikes and distance. I could document it if there is interest although I can't guarantee when exactly I'd finish it but likely before May or June
A couple of places that sell them are
http://www.playingwithfusion.com/product...hp?pdid=22 Playing With Fusion
http://www.embeddedadventures.com/as3935...-1016.html Embedded Adventures <----- This is the one I've used
I've been using them with Arduinos but since they can communicate via SPI or I2C I don't see any reason you couldn't interface with a Raspi or even make a wireless module with an ESP32 although the libraries I have are for Arduino (Tested and 2 devices functional) and a python script for the Raspi. (I haven't tested it yet) They basically send a warning signal, number of strikes and approximate distance although they seem to try to track the distance to the storm's front edge rather than the distance of the actual strike which technically is better because that's where the closest potential for lightning would be. Max distance is 40 km or 25 miles although I've checked mine against some online lightning maps and got hits a little further than that
If not would anyone be interested in something like that? It should be easy to set it up to trigger a warning and send to a dashboard to log strikes and distance. I could document it if there is interest although I can't guarantee when exactly I'd finish it but likely before May or June
A couple of places that sell them are
http://www.playingwithfusion.com/product...hp?pdid=22 Playing With Fusion
http://www.embeddedadventures.com/as3935...-1016.html Embedded Adventures <----- This is the one I've used