IoT Happy Hour #32: TTN LoRa weather station with balena blocks

On this episode, the balena team will build a simple LoRa solar-powered weather station connected to The Things Network with a balena Basics Station TTN gateway. And the data will be received into a Raspberry Pi 3 managed by balena blocks with Influx DB and Grafana.

#IoT #fleetmanagement #weather #influxdb #balena #grafana

00:00 Welcome and introductions
05:10 What's on your desk?
13:00 The story of David's fin (part ii)
19:25 Building a TTN weather station
24:17 More TTN low-cost nodes
26:06 Comparing home sensors (Zigbee, Z-Wave) with LoRaWAN sensors
28:26 balena TTN BasicsTM Station gateway
29:27 Building a TTN weather station (part 2)
33:30 Programming the node with Arduino IDE
35:35 Scaling with TTN and TTI
39:30 How to start with TTN
46:22 BasicsTM Station on the new TTN stack
50:25 Receiving data on TTN from the nodes
52:21 balena blocks on the project
58:17 Accessing to the data through the Pi3
1:00:23 How long takes to have the project up and running from gateway to nodes to data?
1:01:37 Grafana dashboard (balena dashboard block) and influxDB (balena influxDB block)
1:07:30 3D printed enclosure for the weather station
1:10:42 LoRa or LoRaWAN?
1:11:16 What Carlo missed on the episode?
1:13:27 Xmass episode community participation
1:15:28 Wrap-Up