Context
I had a Raspberry Pi weather station whose original vendor backend was no longer online, which left the hardware working but with nowhere to send its data. This project used Claude to rebuild everything downstream of the sensors.
Challenge
The station still produced good readings, but without the vendor service there was no storage, no display, and no way to share the data. It needed a full replacement pipeline built from scratch.
Approach
I set up a Supabase database to record every reading the station generates, giving it a durable history rather than a live-only feed. On top of that I built a custom Astro UI that runs as a live home display and is published at weather.dermotdooley.com. The same pipeline forwards readings to Weather Underground and Windy.com so the station contributes to the wider public weather networks.
Outcome
The weather station is fully back in service on infrastructure I control. All of its data is stored, visible on a live dashboard, and shared to Weather Underground and Windy, with Claude doing much of the build work across the database, the UI, and the publishing integrations.