NOAA Satellite Station

Easy to build NOAA weather satellite image receiving station which autmomaticly calculates pass time and recieves as well as decodes the signal, with nothing more than a raspberry pi and a sdr stick as well as an antenna!

You can checkout the live project Webinterface here!

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Installation

• Clone Repository
• remove www folder
  
• Install Dependencies
  apt-get install at
  apt-get install rtl-sdr
  apt-get install predict
  apt-get install sox
  apt-get install libusb-1.0
  apt-get install cmake
  wget http://www.wxtoimg.com/beta/wxtoimg-armhf-2.11.2-beta.deb
  dpkg -i wxtoimg-armhf-2.11.2-beta.deb
  
• Check stick
  sudo rtl_test
  
• Change predict ground station location
  predict
  
• Give sat.sh execution rights
  chmod +x sat.sh
  
• Add script to crontab for auto execution
  crontab -e
  add "1 0 * * * /sat.sh" to crontab file
  
• Run sat.sh
  
• Check for satellite passes
  atq
  
• If everything went as expected you should see a list with satellite passes for this day
  
• You will find the final pictures with all the other meta files(.wav, .txt, -map.png, .png) at /var/www/html/sat/{pass}/
  

Install Webinterface

• Install Dependencies
  apt-get install apache2
  apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt
  
• move .php and src files/folders to /var/www/html/
  
• Your Web Interface is ready, have fun!
  

Partlist

Raspberry Pi
SDR Stick
Antenna Tutorial

Images