NOAA and Meteor automated capture using Raspberry PI

Most of the code and setup stolen from: Instructables

New Features!

• ISS SSTV reception and decoding
• A webpanel!
• Meteor M2 full decoding!
• Nginx webserver to show images
• Timestamp and satellite name overlay on every image
• WXToIMG configured to create several images (HVC,HVCT,MCIR, etc) based on sun elevation
• Pictures can be posted to Twitter. See more at argentinasat twitter account

Install

There’s an install.sh script that does (almost) everything at once. If in doubt, see the install guide.

Once you’ve performed an installation or if you’re pulling down the latest version of code, use the check.sh script to ensure all of the requisite changes needed for the version of code you’re using are in place. For example, in one refactor, the sun.py script was updated to rely on /home/pi/.noaa.conf having vars declared for LAT, LON, and TZ_OFFSET - if any of these are missing, the check script will fail and report what needs to occur to fix this.

Post config

• Setup Twitter auto posting feature

How do I know if it is running properly?

This project is intended as a zero-maintenance system where you just power-up the Raspberry PI and wait for images to be received. However, if you are in doubt about it just follow the working guide

Hardware setup

Raspberry-noaa runs on Raspberry PI 2 and up. See the hardware notes