Build a Tornado Warning System Using Raspberry Pi
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https://opensource.com/life/16/10/build-your-own-raspberry-pi-tornado-warning-system
For those living in places like Texas and Nebraska, this could be a pretty valuable project to do at home!
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I will rely on the fact that my Phone uses GPS and goes off like an alarm when I am in an area with a weather warning. Also, it isn't something that sneaks up on you. When there are tornadoes in the area i'm tracking them on Radar hours before they are close to my house. Seems like a little overkill to me.
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I felt as @s-hackleman did until I read the article. This type of device could make sense in a business, much less so in a home user environment.
But if you're doing it on a raspberry pi, why not do it on a VM? Lack of weather radio interface?
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@s.hackleman said in Build a Tornado Warning System Using Raspberry Pi:
I will rely on the fact that my Phone uses GPS and goes off like an alarm when I am in an area with a weather warning. Also, it isn't something that sneaks up on you. When there are tornadoes in the area i'm tracking them on Radar hours before they are close to my house. Seems like a little overkill to me.
Not around here. We find out pretty last second. And not everyone here as a cell phone.
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@Dashrender said in Build a Tornado Warning System Using Raspberry Pi:
But if you're doing it on a raspberry pi, why not do it on a VM? Lack of weather radio interface?
VMs have a hard time interfacing to hardware if that's how you are going to use it. I'd like this for home, businesses rarely are in danger from tornadoes like homes are.
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@scottalanmiller said in Build a Tornado Warning System Using Raspberry Pi:
@Dashrender said in Build a Tornado Warning System Using Raspberry Pi:
But if you're doing it on a raspberry pi, why not do it on a VM? Lack of weather radio interface?
VMs have a hard time interfacing to hardware if that's how you are going to use it. I'd like this for home, businesses rarely are in danger from tornadoes like homes are.
This is a lot of effort for a home user who can just take shelter when an off the shelf weather radio will tell you to take cover, then once you do, you can use a laptop or a mobile phone to see if you're really in danger.
The whole idea that a business would just go running when the alarms go off could be very costly is it's not really cost effective - so narrowing it down based on much smaller geographic region, like a few blocks, makes sense.
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@Dashrender That's a good point.
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@scottalanmiller said in Build a Tornado Warning System Using Raspberry Pi:
@Dashrender That's a good point.
lol wasn't my idea, it was in the article you linked.
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@Dashrender said in Build a Tornado Warning System Using Raspberry Pi:
@scottalanmiller said in Build a Tornado Warning System Using Raspberry Pi:
@Dashrender That's a good point.
lol wasn't my idea, it was in the article you linked.
Ha ha
