led-sectional

January 24, 2024

Added support for ESP32-WROOM-DA. Can now compile for either that board or the ESP8266.

1. Added defines at top of code specific to each board.
2. Added define for each board around call to set mode G on wifi interface. No other code changes needed to support the ESP32-WROOM_DA.

Made misc edits.

January 20, 2024

1. Serial output now shows airport code for LEDs with storms/lightning, high winds, or very high winds vs just the LED number. Also shows loop total, e.g. "Loop 1 of 300".
2. Changed default LOOP_INTERVAL to 1000 vs 5000.

January 19, 2024

Edited to show METAR string in serial output. Prior code looked like it should have worked, but did not.

Added a second threshold for very high winds or gusts.

1. Added constant FADE_FOR_HIGH_WINDS to either blink/fade to 50% of flight category color for high winds, or blink black/clear. Default is true.
2. LEDs will blink orange for very high winds or gusts.

Edited to show count of LEDs with thunderstorms/lightning, high winds, very high winds in serial output.

January 17, 2024

Added line: WiFi.setPhyMode(WIFI_PHY_MODE_11G); after WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA); This seems to fix a problem with connection failures to SmartWiFi routers that have the same SSID for both 2.4 and 5 ghz bands.

October 19, 2023

Updated SERVER and BASE_URI to reflect aviationweather.gov changes.

May 5, 2023

Fixed wifi connection logic. Previously was doing an autoconnect every time a loop occurred, which is whenever there is lighting or thunderstorms or high winds found.

April 27, 2023 CHANGE LIST from Kyle Harmon's Code at https://github.com/WKHarmon/led-sectional

1. Added WiFiManger. See this reference: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/wifimanager-with-esp8266-autoconnect-custom-parameter-and-manage-your-ssid-and-password/
2. High wind (orange) color will now blink vs being a solid orange, and be shown for all flight categories, not just VFR
3. Lightning (white blink) will occur not just for TS (thunderstorms), but also for LTG and LTNG reported in <raw_text> in response XML

As a result of 2 and 3, any particular LED could have 3 colors...one for flight category, and blinking either or both of orange and white.

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This uses an Arduino to download METARs for a set of airports and assign a color to a LED representing each airport so that they can be put into a sectional. It is inspired by https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/7avr8q/flight_conditions_sectional_wall_art_thing/

This is designed to run on an ESP8266 or ESP32 and deployed using Arduino, but with minor tweaks (e.g. updated libraries) it should run on most Arduino platforms.

Use ESP8266 Core V2.74 for the ESP8266, or esp32 2.0.11 by Espressif for the ESP32, and FastLED V3.30