Raspberry Pi NOAA Satellite Receiver

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5 жыл бұрын

Emboldened by the success of his Raspberry PIrate radio, Matt indulges in some more radio hacking by building a specialized QFH antenna and a briefcase form-factor satellite receiver in an attempt to intercept "faxes" from OUTER SPAACEEE!!! Connect with Matt on the element14 community: bit.ly/2RiSXC5
Project TIROS is a self-contained, Raspberry Pi-based satellite signal reception system designed to automatically download images and data from NOAA's POES spacecraft as they pass overhead and display the data on an integrated LCD panel. In this video, Matt will walk through how to set up an RTL-SDR module with a Raspberry Pi for automated satellite downloads as well as how to design and build a quadrifilar helical antenna for polar-orbiting signal reception.
Engage with the element14 Presents team on the element14 Community - suggest builds, find project files and behind the scenes video: bit.ly/2MFMG0v

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@RaisingAwesome 5 жыл бұрын

Very cool topic. I never dreamed of snagging satellite images out of the air. For 20 minutes, it looked like 20 hours - great effort.

@HarshColby 5 жыл бұрын

@17:36: In 1980 I helped build a receiver for the TIROS-N weather satellite. Ah, good times. It was used for the official weather forecasting in India by the India Meteorological Department. Thanks for the memories. It was one of the most fun projects I've worked on. We used a gimbal mounted satellite dish to capture the signal in those days. It ran on a Data General Nova computer.

@bigmarc1008 2 жыл бұрын

I used to do similar using NOAA and Meteor 3.3 and 3.4 back at college in 1990 for the local weather report in Torquay. Good old days indeed,

@nothsim 5 жыл бұрын

Where have you been all my life? This is a great channel.

@ThatGuy_33 5 жыл бұрын

I just wanted to say I appreciate the Kilroy in the background

@IreshineSurfInfamous 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks element14 this explains a lot

@markthompson4225 5 жыл бұрын

The wrench that you use is called an open end box wrench. Point nose pliers work real well for taking those standoffs out, or regular pliers.

@rvsjimbo 4 жыл бұрын

For the jackposts on RS-232/VGA connectors, get yourself a Victorinox Swiss Army Cybertool. The bit holder on it is perfect for undoing/doing these up.

@jafinch78 5 жыл бұрын

Nice build in a case. You can also either swap the power supply for an all DC solution that for other listening or maybe transmitting applications will lower the noise. Maybe you can make a battery power supply from recycled re-purposed Lithium Ion cells or I like the Li-Ion INR since seem safer if not using LiFePo4. Then maybe noisy buck converters to rectify if not a quieter though hotter less efficient though quieter RFI/EMI linear solution. Awesome potential here and a great start for way more possibilities with the same system and/or different component upgrades!

@2j4ez 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve used wxtoing and a yaesu radio arrow 2 antenna and decoded satellite signals in real-time it’s good to see the end result

@tom95076 4 жыл бұрын

super cool. I enjoyed the entire video.

@nicholasmeibaum5090 5 жыл бұрын

That was pretty cool!

@RoadRunnerMeep Жыл бұрын

For removing the screws that hold in the VGA mounts etc, use the end of bit screwdriver. The bit normally fits them perfectly

@ddegn 5 жыл бұрын

Any guess on the power draw? I'd think the screen is the biggest power draw. If you swapped the screen with one made to be battery powered, you could likely make the whole kit battery powered without too much trouble. Fun project. Thanks for sharing it with us.

@Hersik 5 жыл бұрын

You can just connect the green PSU cable to any black cable (ground) and it will work without adding a load.

@MagruderSpoots 5 жыл бұрын

Some PSU's need a bit of load on them to give a stable voltage. I don't think his 2.5 watt load is enough though.

@kz03jd 3 жыл бұрын

They also sell reallly cheap "Power supply" boards to connect to the 24pin psu cable and it gives you 12v, 5v, 3.3v & -12v

@kamilpadula7152 11 ай бұрын

Amazing work

@BrentWilliams2 5 жыл бұрын

I wasn't sure if I would be prepared for any jiggery pokery today, but yet here I am.

@Geeksmithing 5 жыл бұрын

That's probably how your parents wound up with you! ;)

@souravnanda2573 5 жыл бұрын

Congrats

@racrav 5 жыл бұрын

Get that boy a fresh Sharpie.

@sovereignlivingsoul 3 жыл бұрын

Building a weather - radio station at the moment, will incorporate satellite, thanks.

@alynicholls3230 5 жыл бұрын

for future reference xbox 360 (all variations) make great project power supplies, 12v+, 5v+, you can get out of them easy and they have a nice enclosure, they are also plentiful in the wild with so many dead 360's it means an abundance of them, if you know how to build a negative voltage circuit a 360 supply makes a great c64/128 power supply, as the original one is hard to find.

@thygate 5 жыл бұрын

no gps unit for location and precise time sync ? Another nice option for the 7 segment clock would be the ETA for the next satellite pass..

@bigmarc1008 2 жыл бұрын

Use the Kepler elements for said satellite to predict AOS and LOS for a given location on earth. I used to do this at College back in 1990 using a receiver and a BBC micro running a Basic script.

@sciggler2880 5 жыл бұрын

The music is great haha

@tberry7348 5 жыл бұрын

I like the concept, but the build site is confusing and I wish you had mm/dd/yyyy total build cost. Here and simple links to all the parts on the build page. Also a better close up of the final product and what it does would be nice. Just a couple recommendations for feuture vids. Overall love the video. TY!

@bobbyjunelive3658 5 жыл бұрын

Badass!

@kd7alt 5 жыл бұрын

Would be cool to loop several hours of pics from sat.

@aVoidPiOver2Rad 5 жыл бұрын

15:09 Why don't you just connect the green wire of the ATX connector to a black one? Works every time for me

@misfitsman805 5 жыл бұрын

Some ATX power supplys won't run/produce a stable output if they don't detect a load on the output.

@aVoidPiOver2Rad 5 жыл бұрын

@@misfitsman805 But what's the point of doing all of this if you don't plan to attach a load anyway?

@aVoidPiOver2Rad 5 жыл бұрын

@@misfitsman805 btw: I just tested this on the cheapest psu I own and got 10mV ripple with a 1 M Ohm, 25 pF load.

@misfitsman805 5 жыл бұрын

jello klotz With some psu, a small load of just a single hdd or a fan isn't enough of a load to keep the psu output stable. Hence adding the additional dummy load resistor to the setup.

@misfitsman805 5 жыл бұрын

I had a psu I used for testing hdds that wouldn't even turn on with a single hdd connected to it. Wasn't enough of a load for the psu to turn it on.

@adventureoflinkmk2 5 жыл бұрын

Hey nice drawing of a DNA

@pmcelraft 5 жыл бұрын

Way. Ben heck is going on his new channel I see him coming back soon lol

@EnlightenedSavage 5 жыл бұрын

FM is not an audio wave form. Rf is a regular EM wave along with light and do not require a medium . Audio wave forms are longitudinal and requires a medium.

@DonBryantPhotography 3 жыл бұрын

I think you have misinterpreted what he stated. He knows ands states a FM receiver is required to receive the files which are audio files.

@trilobyte3851 5 жыл бұрын

RF work I have done...I used my cars AM station to listen to sports...long rang

@seanj1984 5 жыл бұрын

Any plans for the antenna you built I have tried a few and none really work

@brandonm7495 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, can we get some audio leveling on this video?

@jrocco36 5 жыл бұрын

Yes I've built satellite receivers for both POES (NOAA 15,18 & 19) and GOES-16 weather satellites. However, I found using a raspberry pi can be problematic. The Pi gets overheated even with a fan and would reboot because of power drops even using an PC power supply. When it is running it kept dropping packets and I would lose hours of images from the GOES-16 Satellite. For my GOES system I dumped the Pi and went with a full PC running Ubuntu and all my problems with overheating, power loss and dropped packets went away.

@derekhallman9770 5 жыл бұрын

Solid - this is some james bond shit

@oldtimeengineer26 5 жыл бұрын

not enough info on the programming part for me to do it bummer

@Travelinmatt1976 5 жыл бұрын

Is there a way to include a speaker so you can hear the satellites during a pass? Did any of you young kids catch that Mork and Mindy, Robin Williams reference @4:13?

@joedempseysr.3376 5 жыл бұрын

Skimpy on the details. That's 21:41 of my life I'm not getting back. :-(

@BanditLeader 5 жыл бұрын

Well this isnt a tutorial video so

@matyastomoga9944 4 жыл бұрын

I was hoping for a tutorial too. :(

@Jonathan-vx7xi 3 жыл бұрын

thanks..won't bother watching..check out The Thought Emporium....he has several tutorials on how to do it, very detailed

@OfficialNetDevil 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to youtube in general

@Shenanigans3D 3 жыл бұрын

The tutorial can be found on his element14 page. But you need to be a paying member. 🙄

@suomi422 4 жыл бұрын

could I use instead of home made antenna, something like old satellite dish or so?

@TugAndThugComputing 4 жыл бұрын

Can you do a NOAA/NWS radio alert reciever

@buckstarchaser2376 5 жыл бұрын

It's hard to listen to tech advice from someone who has yet to discover audio normalization.

@DAVIDGREGORYKERR 5 жыл бұрын

Can you not send up the antenna lead to power a RF Preamp.

@kreynolds1123 5 жыл бұрын

Can sdr detect satellite doppler shift?

@alpagutsencer 5 жыл бұрын

This dude is awesome but god damn i miss ben. :(

@fernandocalderon8332 5 жыл бұрын

Ben has a channel Ben heck hacks

@garyreardon11 5 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking the same. But now he has his own channel!

@RadionicaExpress 5 жыл бұрын

Hi i get for Europe positive N and E from google, how to convert it in West?

@NitinVarmaManthena 5 жыл бұрын

I am trying to access raspberry pi, which is behind a Nat ‘ed network from internet without port forwarding and third-party website. The functionality I am looking is something like what dataplicity is doing. I am noob to networking and python. But have strong coding knowledge with Microsoft .NET and Angular 2 and higher. I would like to host my own website with this functionality. Could you please help me with this? Also dataplicity’s client agent can be found at dataplicity-agent

@blackswan7292 5 жыл бұрын

Good luck taking it into the airport lol

@pepper669 5 жыл бұрын

omg this guy just invented the laptop

@MaximumMatador 4 жыл бұрын

In South Africa the POES signal is very strong.

@timh8273 5 жыл бұрын

are the scripts available for download?

@mjmk555 5 жыл бұрын

Y not use vampire connectors for the cable it would have looked better and worked out with a better signal strength

@yoski203 5 жыл бұрын

sooooo.... i gues it never worked??

@MarkPentler 5 жыл бұрын

RECEIVE MESSAGES FROM LITERALLY IN FRONT OF THE STARS

@VisualBasic6 5 жыл бұрын

uh.. ya know you can just jump the green to the black (ground) on hte pc powersupply to turn it on ? no extra load or complicated stuff required..

@Itsallgonetocustard 5 жыл бұрын

uh, ya know you're about the sixth to ask? The answer lies there. All PSU's are not like the others, some are different.

@VisualBasic6 5 жыл бұрын

also also also, a dual di-pole antenna would have been MUCH easier to build.. and much better.. and uh.. a ATX psu for a pi ?? geez, that's overkill.. get a small screen just to pull the images to a decent pc..

@sneffels 5 жыл бұрын

Yea thats what I'm using a dipole spaced 120 deg facing south gets fairly good reception. I can start picking up noaa sats at like +3 deg above horizon. also nice that it's dead simple to make. Though I dont bother with a R-Pi and just use my main comp. Why spend extra if I dont have to

@howardrider7272 5 жыл бұрын

Not a crescent wrench. That would be a combination wrench. Crescent wrench is a brand name for an adjustable wrench.

@sneffels 5 жыл бұрын

if you don't want to use a raspberry pi or make a complicated antenna you can use the SDR on any computer better than a potato As for the antenna a V dipole with 120 deg spacing that faces south. the opening of the V facing south, not the point of it. will work just fine as long as there isn't a ton of other radio interference but at 131-137mhz end of the spectrum there shouldn't be that much unless you live near a airport. one benefit of using a pc is you can get software that tracks the NOAA sats and can automatically tune your SDR to compensate for Doppler shift as well as decode the images live and save them them as well as add enhancements like false colour, heat maps, precipitation estimation ect. www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-receiving-noaa-weather-satellite-images/ www.rtl-sdr.com/simple-noaameteor-weather-satellite-antenna-137-mhz-v-dipole/

@qqqqqq6686 5 жыл бұрын

is the doppler here really important ? at 137 Mhz band the shift is about 200-400Hz

@sneffels 5 жыл бұрын

@@qqqqqq6686 It's not too important for the SDR since the NOAA sat signal is only 36Khz wide. and SDRs can sample a much wider signal you can also manually track the doppler or get programs to do it for you. The first few times I just set my SDRs bandwidth to encompass the whole doppler shift range and my images turned out fine, but now I have my tracking software send the doppler shifted signal to my SDR software it was quite simple to set up and automates the collection of images. Personaly I use WxTrack for tracking SDR# for my SDR and WxToImg for decoding and it all can run automatically. Just get the software up and running and let it do its thing, oh I also use a plugin for SDR# that can read the data from the tracking software to get the doppler shifted signal

@qqqqqq6686 5 жыл бұрын

@@sneffels oh I also use a plugin for SDR# - which plugin? thx in advance

@sneffels 5 жыл бұрын

@@qqqqqq6686 DDETracker www.satsignal.eu/software/DDETracker.html

@glowingone1774 5 жыл бұрын

Also sdr are taxing on CPU, yeah rpis are cools but a computer is much more suitable for this.

@marcusgarvey630 4 жыл бұрын

How can i test this myself so i know your not lying 🤷🏾‍♂️

@ricardop.5303 5 жыл бұрын

Just to correct the antenna connections to coax cable. The connections presented on the video are wrong and can compromise the reception. The following image show how the connections are made correctly. www.gregorystrike.com/assets/legacy/QHA_Wiring.png

@thetaleteller4692 5 жыл бұрын

I would have left out that fan and used some beefy battery and laptop charger feeding 12v and 5v to the hardware.

@mickyjb2003 4 жыл бұрын

Sorry got to 14.00 and you lost me by you appearing to dismantle a laptop. I’ll have to watch the flog again to see if I missed something.

@owaind-g678 2 жыл бұрын

I guess this guide is more about the project of building the unit yourself rather than the end result. A laptop would be a more compact, powerful, efficient solution if you were going mobile since weight and space are the main issues when carrying equipment right? Nice work regardless looks great, given me some ideas to work on thanks!

@radar536 2 жыл бұрын

How can I get in contact with you guys?

@johnwest7993 Жыл бұрын

I thought NOAA downloaded the images data, added the state and national borders and such, then sent that image back up to the satellite for the user to download.

@afm4711 4 жыл бұрын

No, cmake has nothing to do with whether the software is written in C.

@TheoSmith249 3 жыл бұрын

No where near in business! LOL!

@montanawestphotography6671 4 жыл бұрын

surely there has to be a program for a weather station for pi instead of all that very confusing programming I simply dont understand. I cant use this.

@moncholm8170 5 жыл бұрын

Do it with tablet monitor and make it more portable.

@Asdayasman 5 жыл бұрын

Pff, I'm not gonna be impressed until he puts it on an apple watch.

@moncholm8170 5 жыл бұрын

@@Asdayasman who is trying to impress you?

@CodeAsm 5 жыл бұрын

@@Asdayasman You should be watching mikeselectricstuff videos ;) a long intresting one about ipod lcd reverseengineering: 7TedIzmguP0 (the target for his project is here: b9yqnrx8OBM) but take that information, add a SoC with a driver and some SDR or hardware radio and you have your NOAA image portable :D

@VisualBasic6 5 жыл бұрын

Next step : Geostationary orbit sats

@itatorro 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting! But you needed a radio reciever. Was that the SDR? WHAT kind? How'd you get the audio into the RP for decoding?

@harleymandk 5 жыл бұрын

buy the kit : www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-91312/l/episode-370-raspberry-pi-noaa-satellite-receiver

@blenderNOOb69 5 жыл бұрын

Music is too loud on your intro

@RinksRides 5 жыл бұрын

seems overkill, why not just use the fvk in laptop infront of thee?!

@yabucoaman 5 жыл бұрын

now make a raspberry pie tv satelite receiver that would be more usefull

@CodeAsm 5 жыл бұрын

the antenna part was cool and the setup on the raspbery was a needed extra... but why do all these vids need a case, a too powerfull psu and screen...a desktop LCD in a portable? WHY.... element14, im telling you guys... NO. this is too much, for such a project we can imagine ourselves to expand on... no need to show it all the way

@kz03jd 3 жыл бұрын

I wish he would pick how he's going to pronounce "raspberry"

@cheapmod 5 жыл бұрын

its not working.

@stapuft 5 жыл бұрын

what happened to the been heck show???

@terrancebarrett727 5 жыл бұрын

He still has his own show I think you can search it as Ben heck

@stapuft 5 жыл бұрын

@@terrancebarrett727 ok good, I thought he stopped or something, the KZfaq algorithm or whatever stopped showing his stuff in my feed, and last I remembered he was posting his show on this channel and not that one, thanks for setting me right. side note he's still the only featured person on the picture for this channels profile, on mobile anyway. it makes it seem like this is the place you go from the been heck show, it even says "the been heck show, new episodes every Wednesday and Friday."

@stapuft 5 жыл бұрын

@@terrancebarrett727 and.....no you can't, I just did and it takes you to this channels page, even just "been heck" gets you element 14 presents and loads of things not from him?

@terrancebarrett727 5 жыл бұрын

Sorry its ben heck hacks

@stapuft 5 жыл бұрын

@@terrancebarrett727 Domo arigoto, donkeschone, and thank you good sir.

@singhpk99 3 жыл бұрын

try taking this on a plane even with your COVID MASK on!

@kd7ura 5 жыл бұрын

Actually cringed when i saw that poor coax cable end. Then the solder job to the bnc. There are better ways. And proper tools for trimming the ends of coax. Rf is not like electricity it will go places you wouldnt think. Do it right and you get better results.

@josueemiyobazan2385 5 жыл бұрын

diy umpc with raspberry pi zero plaese

@MidnightVisions 5 жыл бұрын

There is no way you downloaded that image using that antenna. I call B.S.

@element14presents 5 жыл бұрын

It's totally do-able. Try it yourself :P

@MidnightVisions 5 жыл бұрын

I have tried may times using the hf fax setup the Elektor and EPE kits, and going back to the late 1980's, the opamp receiver, and its difficult to reliably receive the weather satellite signal. The turnstile antenna is a terrible design, with other designs providing better performance. However you simply do not provide enough information to build this project from this video. Anyway since you have a working system, try these other antennas and tell us which one works better. medium.com/@lucasteske/qfh-antenna-and-my-first-reception-of-noaa-9a99aa69956f

@xx-bg2dj 5 жыл бұрын

I used to pull images like that from NOAA LEO satellites with less sophisticated gear 20 years ago. And that was when they used wideband FM. Home made FM receiver, Lindenblad home made antenna and a 386 PC with a sound card for demod.

@nicklcarey 5 жыл бұрын

I agree...Some hocus pocus stuff going on here.

@LinuxJedi 4 жыл бұрын

"Mobile"

@thegenerousdegenerate9395 5 жыл бұрын

I built one of those too! Watch this... Hey google, show me satellite images of forest fires. TA DAAA!😁😝

@LeeRiddiough 4 жыл бұрын

great , but your talking to a novice with no coding experience , please show how to make this in better detail

@rahulsahani4954 4 жыл бұрын

Hindi me bol ke send karo

@toxabg74 5 жыл бұрын

Колхоз

@skimask87 5 жыл бұрын

So.... Got anything original? Or just keep copying the same ol' thing? Talk about going to shit since getting bought out, but hey, money talks and bullshit walks.

@muchhustle4982 2 жыл бұрын

WTF? I might as well just watched a cartoon as it would be equally useless. Length of cables? Radio frequency? Based on wave length of? Or are we supposed to just watch, drooling, and not actually Do It Ourselves? Time waste.