NOAA Automated capture using Raspberry PI

Most of the code and setup stolen from: Instructables

New Features!

• Nginx webserver to show images.
• Timestamp and satellite name over every image.
• WXToIMG configured to create several images (HVC,HVCT,MCIR, etc).
• Pictures are posted to Twitter. See more at argentinasat twitter account.
• Wiki is updated!
• Audio files are stored on a RAMFS partition. Happen to had some glitches on image reception

Manual work

• See Wiki’s install and config page for information

Important notes

• I tried to run this on a Raspberry PI Zero Wifi, no luck. Seems like it’s too much load for the CPU. Running on a Raspberry PI 2+ is ok. See Wiki’s hardware notes page.
• Code was a bit updated on how it handles the UTC vs timezone times.

To do

• Calculate sun elevation for each satellite pass to decide image enhancement done.