RPI-ESP8266-temphumi-collector

Detect ESP8266 by itself, try to grep the weather information and publish it to website

It also use API from https://macvendors.co

The information from booth sources will be cached, to reduce the workload

install

cd /opt
sudo apt-get install python3-pip && sudo pip3 install getmac
sudo git clone https://github.com/Starwhooper/RPi-ESP8266-temphumi-collector
sudo chmod +x /opt/RPi-ESP8266-temphumi-collector/collect.py
sudo mkdir /opt/RPi-ESP8266-temphumi-collector/cache

Update

If you already use it, feel free to update with

cd /opt/RPi-ESP8266-temphumi-collector
sudo git pull origin main

Configure

copy example configuration at first time:

cp /opt/RPi-ESP8266-temphumi-collector/config.json.example /opt/RPi-ESP8266-temphumi-collector/config.json

edit config file It use API from https://openweathermap.org, please add you API Key in config.json

sudo nano /opt/RPi-ESP8266-temphumi-collector/config.json

start

add to cronjob

sudo crontab -e
*/5 * * * * /opt/RPi-ESP8266-temphumi-collector/collect.py