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PCB arrived today.

Initial Setup

1. Soldered JP1,2,3 (debug LED, power , and charge indicator)

2. Set to ESP32 DevKit

3. Blink is working and printing to serial console on programmer UART

Initial TODO

•  Hello World!
•  Evaluate charger circuit
•  Add compiler directive for non-Heltec software build
•  ADC review for VBAT
•  ADC review for VSOLAR
•  Digital CHGST pin read
•  Rain gauge interrupt routine back online
•  I2C evaluation with BME280
•  Weather direction evaluation
•  Wind speed evaluation
•  New LoRa radio install for 915MHz
•  Calibrate ADC for VBAT
•  Calibrate ADC for VSOLAR
•  Verify I2C power switch
•  Verify LoRa power switch

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Sensor → LoRa → MQTT → Home Assistant

•  Data makes it to Home Assistant
•  Rainfall hourly accumulation
•  Rainfall 24h accumulation
•  Wire up DS 1-wire sensor
•  Correct BME temperature in MQTT or HA (unit of measure is wrong)

Home Assistant - Weather sensor data

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Home Assistant - Hardware sensor/health data

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05 Nov 2022

Mostly morning towards formal beta testing release on sender and receiver software at this point in time.