Weather station decoder

Author: Matt Way March 2024 (https://github.com/matt-kiwi)

The SeeedStudio CapSense One is a rugged RS-485 Weather station

This python script polls the RS485 sensor once every five minutes ( settable by adding a cron job ).
This script was written for and tested with a Raspberry Pi, but should work on other Linux machines.

XC0400-manualMain.pdf

Installation notes (incomplete)

Update Linux with APT system

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Check python version is geater than 3.1

Python -V

Install pip

apt-get install pip

Install required Python modules for weather station

pip install paho.mqtt pyyaml influxdb-client