My first RaspberryPi project: TV-Controlled Weatherstation (Part I)

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For quite some time I’ve been playing with the thought about bying a Raspberry Pi. Yet the biggest issue was: I had no use case for it!

I always liked information about the weather – especiallly I wanted to know in the morning how cold it was at night etc. So the use case was found: a weather station! Yet I was pretty distracted from all examples that I found on the web as I wanted a visually appealing UI so that it is fun to look at the data. Usually the samples just controlled a small LED display to display some values but – honestly – I don’t need a display at the weatherstation directly – I mean – shouldn’t it be somewhere outside and not in the room?

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