Luc Bors Weblog

In my previous post I showed you how to setup a simple weather-station using Raspberry Pi, GroovyPi sensors and Python. It worked very well, but there is definitely room for improvement. In this short post I describe some of these improvements. First you will learn how to start the weather-station when you reboot the Pi. Next I will show you how to create some decent log info. Autostart The weather-station works like a charm, but if the Raspi is rebooted, you need to manually restart the python script. That is not the way I want this to work, I want the weather-station start on reboot. Actually this is very simple. The Raspberry Pi uses Linux as OS and thus we can use the crontab to schedule when to start tasks. With the @reboot directive, a task starts on reboot. The only thin we need to do is to add a line to the crontab that tells that we want to start our weather-station on each and every reboot. You can open te crontab for editing by issuing the following command: $ sudo cron...