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light gorge Mar 28, 2024, 9:42 PM

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Built a little RGB matrix to display weather data, cloud coverage etc. looking for some suggestions as to any other stats etc I should add.

Last step will be feeding the data to chat Gpt and give an overall view of condition i.e green light that we're good for astrophotogrphy tonight it not.

Any feedback appreciated.

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some other things i plan to add, tonights best viewing dso , planets etc. Possibly some astro related news feeds if any one has suggestions?

full roost Mar 31, 2024, 3:59 AM

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Arduino based in guessing?

light gorge Apr 1, 2024, 1:34 PM

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@full roost yeah, runs from an esp32.

full roost Apr 1, 2024, 2:36 PM

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Oh right

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Very cool

light gorge Apr 1, 2024, 5:15 PM

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btw if anyone is interested in building their own i have spare boards etc

full roost Apr 1, 2024, 11:07 PM

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What does it do?

light gorge Apr 2, 2024, 12:42 PM

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Well mine, like in the vid has weether / astro details, i addeed in chat gpt last night so it gives more info and tonights best DSOs etc. I have a playlist of other things as well on mine, It shows next train times at the local station, upcoming football matches and live results, sky / bbc news scroller., Bitcoin ticker. I have a mic on it as well and reacts to audio, Lots of different stuff you can do with them.

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If building our own it will cost you around £50 in parts. Or you can get one prebuilt for £99

full roost Apr 5, 2024, 1:09 PM

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That’s cool ngl

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What screen does it use

full roost Apr 5, 2024, 10:09 PM

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Can i have a parts list u can send In dm if u want @light gorge

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Cuz i might make something similar and make it out of wood

light gorge Apr 5, 2024, 11:44 PM

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hey just seen this, i'll give you a shout tomorrow.

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@full roost are you in uk?

full roost Apr 5, 2024, 11:46 PM

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Yes

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Sorry for commenting so late i can’t sleep

full roost Apr 6, 2024, 9:03 AM

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@light gorge yoooo

full roost Apr 6, 2024, 10:00 AM

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@light gorge

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U said u was gonna give me the parts list?

light gorge Apr 6, 2024, 10:24 AM

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you basically need an esp32 and the rgb matrix.. and a power supply

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i made my own pcbs, i can give you one but you need to be able to solder.

full roost Apr 6, 2024, 10:37 AM

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Check DMs @light gorge

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How did you implement chatgpt? And how did u get it to show the Astro details

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And dso’s ect

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@light gorge ?

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?

light gorge Apr 6, 2024, 12:24 PM

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i wrote some sketches in c++ for it

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i fetch as much info as i can from the weather apis and i just pass that as a json string to chat gpt, that decides if weather is good or not for astro

full roost Apr 6, 2024, 12:34 PM

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Oh cool

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What are you going to add in future?

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@light gorge

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I’m making something but with a arduino and I’m going to add date and time then tempature but idk how to add anything else rn

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Light pollution isn’t rlly worth it

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And then idk how to add Astro features such as sunset best things to view ect

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@light gorge

light gorge Apr 6, 2024, 2:52 PM

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full roost And then idk how to add Astro features such as sunset best things to view ect

Theres plenty of apis out there to grab the basic info from, including cloud coverage % etc

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if you build / buy the same as mine then i can let you install my scripts

full roost Apr 6, 2024, 3:14 PM

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I’m going to use a arduino Uno r3

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And ima use a i2c display

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@light gorge

light gorge Apr 7, 2024, 10:43 PM

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if thatst the case you're probably best getting somethign like this https://thingpulse.com/product/esp32-wifi-color-display-kit-grande/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=pmax&utm_campaign=ckg&utm_id=20693735939&_gl=1*1iaho7o*_ga*NjkzMDQwMDQ2LjE3MTAwMDc0MTg.*_ga_YQQ4TG85MT*MTcxMjUyOTczMy4yLjAuMTcxMjUyOTc0MS4wLjAuMA.._gcl_awR0NMLjE3MTI1Mjk3MzMuQ2owS0NRandpTW13QmhEbUFSSXNBQmVRN3hUWTNGMDE3QUJielJ5elJuT3lJRURIZnQtZzZWX0xaWXZoeGZwU25QcjNGU3QxSmpaYjgxSWFBdEdxRUFMd193Y0I._gcl_auMTc5NTUxNzQ4NC4xNzEwMDA3NDE4

ThingPulse

ESP32 WiFi Color Display Kit Grande • ThingPulse

A modern IoT starter kit with extensibility built in. 1x ePulse Feather, low-power ESP32 development board 1x 3.5" 320x480 Color Display (ILI9488, TFT) with capacitive touch Interface (FT6236) 1x custom connector PCB to connect the ESP32 and the display 1x set of special pin headers, to be soldered to connector PCB 1x on-off switch, to be optio...

full roost Apr 10, 2024, 3:58 PM

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Yo @light gorge

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How did u get ur build to show best planets?

full roost Apr 13, 2024, 9:07 AM

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@light gorge

full roost Apr 13, 2024, 8:56 PM

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@light gorge

light gorge Apr 15, 2024, 8:05 PM

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Chat GPT

full roost Apr 16, 2024, 11:49 AM

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How did u implement it can u give me a tut?

light gorge Apr 16, 2024, 6:13 PM

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you're best asking chat gpt to be fair lol, but they have a paid api service, thats what i use, runs on my server in php

full roost Apr 16, 2024, 7:27 PM

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Oh yh

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I have no money so yk

light gorge Apr 16, 2024, 10:20 PM

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leave it with me, i might open my api

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if it works well on the 3,5 model i'll open my api, requests don't cost as much using that

light gorge Apr 21, 2024, 9:01 PM

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So i built a database and a script to list the top dso's for the location, but the database is massive and takes a feew minutes per query.

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I think for now the best way would be to allow users to create a custom database and leet you choose items from a list to query.

quick marsh Apr 21, 2024, 9:27 PM

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I’d add wind to the display and hourly forecast for clouds and wind

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Plus moon % if you haven’t yet

light gorge Apr 22, 2024, 1:18 PM

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@quick marsh i'll add in windspeed, maybe even an alert to bring the scope in if it gets too windy. Hourly forecast for cloud coverage is already there as well as moon %.

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I've ordered some cheap displays similar to the ESP32 WiFi Color Display Kit Grande • ThingPulse i posted above and will port most of the code over for it so threres a cheap alternative to the rgb matrix.

full roost Apr 23, 2024, 2:46 PM

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@light gorge I’ll still have the database to help me learn and which esp32 do you use?

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And maybe could you send us your code?

light gorge Apr 23, 2024, 4:01 PM

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d1 mini usually, i've no code complete yet,. I'll release something once the screens arrive and i get time to put something together

full roost Apr 23, 2024, 5:34 PM

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Ok then thanks 🙂

full roost Apr 23, 2024, 11:00 PM

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And if you wanna get more help and ideas join the arduino server

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https://discord.gg/arduino-420594746990526466

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