Month: January 2024

Remote Station Screenshots

As I’ve been “playing” with it a bit, I thought I’d post some updated screenshots of the control system I use for the remote station. As a reminder, I use a Raspberry Pi 4 running Home Assistant OS and Home Assistant.

There are four tabs on the screen for: Overall status and control; Current and recent propagation conditions; more system status information; and environment conditions at the remote station.

In addition, there are special screens showing more detailed information and diagnostics should they be needed.

Image of the Home Screen
Home Screen
Image of propagation screen
Propagation Screen
Image of system status screen
System State Screen
Image of environment screen
Environment Screen

The last screen looks more complex than it needs to be because I have been playing with the system to optimize the temperature and humidity in the cabinet. Once I’m done, I’ll hide the various thermostats because they’ll never be adjusted by a user.

Remote station update

I realize that it’s been some time since I updated this blog.

The project is still active, but has been suspended due to the weather.

  • The station is running nicely in my back garden
  • The site has been surveyed and is suitable
  • The hold-up is the antenna:
    • It’s going up in the trees
    • I decided to wait until the leaves were off the trees
    • By that time, the weather was appalling and ground too boggy to walk over.

I’ve had to postpone until the weather improves. Unfortunately, I will be overseas for several months, so we’re looking at June.

I’ll need to go with a simpler antenna and revise later.