What do half a Bunnings weather station, an Arduino, a NodeMCU (or 3), Elasticsearch, a fishtank and swimming pool have to do with each other? Nothing unless you like to monitor and measure pretty much everything around the house. I do, and ever since I learned to fly, I have had a fascination with the weather (I am told boaties suffer from a related affliction). I could just buy a weather station, but where's the fun in that when for the same amount of money (OK, maybe a little more) I can make my own and bore people senseless when I go on and on about it? Actually, there is a practical purpose to this as well. I wanted to teach myself about Elastic and Kibana. Now you can wade through dry tutorials, but nothing in my opinion beats working with real live data. Especially if the data is of interest to you. The design What do you want to measure? This is actually pretty important (not to mention obvious), but before embarking too far; take a...
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