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ESP32-Based mechanical NMEA-183 wind sensor

  • a5600 is used as a wind vane angle sensor
  • sealed-contact is used to count wind speed sensor ticks
  • Schematics

The wind sensor starts a WiFi access point, and then transmits wind data two ways:

  • NMEA 0183 sentences via UDP port 9500. Counterparts available:
    • ESP-32 Wind indicator
    • [ESP8266-based UART bridge] and a charplotter Not tested on a real chartplotter
    • OpenCPN
    • Any other software able to receive NMEA-183 data via UDP
  • An internal web page showing wind dial in real time. Any mobile or a laptop is able to display that at http://yanus.local/wind

Parameters to adjust

The web part of the sensor is also used to fine-tune:

  • Wind angle correction
  • Wind speed correction
  • Wind angle averaging time
  • Alarm wind angles

How to flash the main unit

The binaries are compiled for classic ESP32, but tested also on ESP32-S3 and ESP32-C3

There are multiple ways to flash ESP32. The easiest way is esptool-js.

Take binaries from the latest release.

Flash addresses for ESP32 are

File Address
bootloader.bin 0x1000
partition-table.bin 0x8000
ota_data_initial.bin 0xd000
esp-windsensor-mast.bin 0x10000