NOAA Automated capture using Raspberry PI

Most of the code and setup stolen from: Instructables

New Features!

• Meteor M2 full decoding!
• 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

Install

There’s an install.sh script that does everything at once. If in doubt, see the Wiki’s install and config page.

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.