Gristle Crüe — WeatherXM with Manos

It’s always excit­ing to talk with the founder of a blockchain + meat­space project, and this dis­cus­sion with Manos at Weath­erXM was no excep­tion. As nor­mal­ly hap­pens, I went in with one under­stand­ing and left with anoth­er. Deep­en­ing our under­stand­ing of these worlds is crit­i­cal to mak­ing good deci­sions. Ya can’t make a good call on bad info! 

My biggest take­away was the fact that Weath­erXM is built to give you a fore­cast for YOUR loca­tion. I’m not sure how I missed that before, I was think­ing it was just a tok­enized weath­er sta­tion project, not that it gave spe­cif­ic pre­dic­tions about the area it was col­lect­ing infor­ma­tion for. I’m look­ing for­ward to the Heli­um ver­sions com­ing out soon!

Chat Transcript

10:03:05 From Jay M. : I lost sound right when you said my name… stu­pid ear buds!
10:03:17 From 619OTA : Cross bor­ders track­ers Nik
10:03:31 From Travis Teague : safe trav­els
10:03:51 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Thanks @travis ?
10:04:16 From Eric Jonas : Hel­lo every­one.
10:04:21 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Hi Eric!
10:04:28 From Eric Jonas : Excit­ed for Weath­er XM
10:04:41 From Jay M. : ?
10:04:57 From Sean Med­i­na : wel­come in advance, to the SF Bay Area, Nik + Lee!
10:05:35 From Travis Teague : can I sup­ple­ment Weath­erXM sta­tions with oth­er devices (I2C, etc)?
10:05:51 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Thanks Sean! You in SF?
10:06:15 From Travis Teague : word
10:06:50 From Sean Med­i­na : close to SF.
10:07:26 From Travis Teague : “weath­er enthu­si­asts” I love that term
10:08:26 From Eric Jonas : I’m near SF
10:08:49 From Eric Jonas : San­ta Fe, NM ?
10:09:00 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : If any­body has ques­tions for Pollen tomor­row, let me know! I’m mak­ing a list
10:09:10 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Eric lol
10:09:24 From Travis Teague : so many ques­tions… 😉
10:09:37 From Michael Corum : Is Pollen plan­ning to solve the prob­lems of being paid over Telegram (like a real token on exchanges) and the prob­lem of need­ing to dri­ve around to map? These seem like block­ers to me.
10:09:55 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Got it Michael
10:10:42 From Travis Teague : I’m assum­ing your markup on hard­ware is pret­ty much noth­ing?
10:11:24 From Travis Teague : or lossy?
10:11:27 From 619OTA : great to hear. I want more already.. light­ning detec­tion. air qual­i­ty. etc.
10:12:15 From Eric Jonas : For­got I had my cam­era on and I’m hav­ing break­fast. Hope I did­n’t look too sil­ly. dan­git…
10:12:30 From Nik Hawks : https://www.windy.com/
10:12:31 From Travis Teague : like, some of those sen­sors are bussed pro­to­cols where you can chain sen­sors, right?
10:12:40 From Nik Hawks : https://weatherxm.com/
10:12:42 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : @eric did­n’t even notice
10:13:23 From 619OTA : yup. I use to use Windy and SDGE maps before I had my WXM
10:14:24 From Travis Teague : and you build these in “the cloud” and then push mod­els to edge?
10:14:38 From Travis Teague : on M5?
10:16:04 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : @nik Travis has a lot of ques­tions
10:16:55 From 619OTA : An Add-on vs. Com­plete new weath­er sta­tion
10:17:30 From Travis Teague : was ask­ing about chain­ing I2C sen­sors onto a bus
10:17:57 From Travis Teague : cool! 😉
10:18:40 From Travis Teague : I have run those against an OTII device…
10:19:17 From Travis Teague : (er, the SEEED units w/ LoRaWAN, but not exter­nal M5)
10:19:58 From Travis Teague : nice
10:20:06 From Travis Teague : noth­ing is crazy.
10:21:48 From Travis Teague : LoRaWAN, yes? not LoRa
10:22:06 From Eric Jonas : It bet­ter stick around I’m try­ing to eat here.
10:22:33 From Travis Teague : eat­ing RF makes you skin­ny
10:22:58 From Eric Jonas : Great! I need to drop a few. Bless­ings!
10:23:14 From RM : ?
10:23:15 From Travis Teague : ear­ly access? link?
10:23:23 From Jay M. : nice
10:23:28 From Eric Jonas : Hik­ing in some off grid setups should help too.
10:23:55 From Travis Teague : these need to be on all the new devices going up…
10:25:07 From 619OTA : cant wait. would love ear­ly access. already got 2. and already got a mount ready for my off grid
10:25:14 From RM : YES!!!!!
10:25:19 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : YES!!!
10:25:25 From Travis Teague : you take HNT, right?
10:25:29 From RM : GC fast-track!!!!! go go go
10:26:08 From Travis Teague : you are prob­a­bly talk­ing to a lot of folks that can flash firmware
10:26:43 From Michael Corum : I vol­un­teer
10:26:48 From RM : GC cher­ry pick­ing!
10:27:43 From 619OTA : wow #6.
10:28:00 From Eric Jonas : Sol­id field reports too
10:28:39 From 619OTA : I’m in the beta group. Had a meet­ing / inter­view with John.
10:28:43 From Elon­Tusk : Already on wait­list! 😉
10:28:52 From Travis Teague : it is a pret­ty even keeled group here… it seems
10:29:02 From 619OTA : yes. also on the wait­list
10:29:20 From 619OTA : Lyna ?
10:29:23 From Eric Jonas : I’m on every wait­list
10:29:26 From Elon­Tusk : “I vol­un­teer as trib­ute!” lol
10:29:36 From Travis Teague : dra­ma in dis­cord?
10:29:40 From Travis Teague : nowai
10:29:45 From Elon­Tusk : No… nev­er 😉
10:31:06 From Travis Teague : are you pre-min­ing tokens?
10:31:35 From Lyna : Not exact­ly dra­ma but we want to be fair with our com­mu­ni­ty 😉
10:31:55 From Eric Jonas : The only way I can guar­an­tee that I won’t do some­thing sil­ly on zoom video is to pin my feed and stare at myself. It’s hel­la awk­ward.
10:31:56 From Lyna : Hey every­one 🙂
10:31:58 From Elon­Tusk : ?
10:32:06 From RM : ?
10:32:10 From 619OTA : Hey Lyna ?
10:32:13 From Eric Jonas : ?
10:32:16 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Hi Lyna
10:32:18 From Nik Hawks : Hi Lyna!
10:32:28 From 619OTA : so.. about that Alpha list..
10:32:30 From Greg Gent : hi Lyna!
10:33:23 From Travis Teague : thoughts on Side­walk?
10:33:56 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : From Travis: are you pre-min­ing tokens? Thoughts on Side­walk?
10:34:05 From Travis Teague : thanks 😉
10:34:07 From Elon­Tusk : Bust­ed! lol
10:34:21 From Lyna : haha­ha
10:35:21 From Travis Teague : I would like our devteam to eat din­ner with your par­ents… not gonna hap­pen.
10:35:52 From Travis Teague : noth­ing
10:36:40 From Jay M. : Only thing worse than work­ing with/for Musk is work­ing for Bezos…
10:39:52 From Travis Teague : nice
10:42:05 From Travis Teague : locked…
10:42:15 From Travis Teague : that’s a hard issue
10:42:34 From Michael Corum : What about test­net access?
10:43:40 From Greg Gent : I have a few toke­nomics ques­tions if there’s time
10:44:14 From Travis Teague : Every time I hear Manos speak I love this project more…
10:44:38 From Lyna : some­one for­got his next meet­ing! Now I have many rea­sons to kill my beloved CEO
10:44:59 From Elon­Tusk : haha­ha­ha
10:45:00 From RM : ?
10:45:08 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : @lyna ?
10:45:10 From Elon­Tusk : RIP
10:45:10 From 619OTA : yes. 15mins over. but much appre­ci­at­ed
10:45:31 From Jay M. : haha
10:45:34 From Elon­Tusk : ??
10:45:34 From Michael Corum : How about both
10:46:04 From Travis Teague : love ques­tions that start like that
10:48:08 From Michael Corum : Inter­est­ing
10:48:29 From Travis Teague : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gPSGrpIlkc
10:48:34 From Michael Corum : or next time
10:51:08 From Travis Teague : if I have a weath­er sta­tion that is tied into a local yacht club (or what­ev­er) can I eas­i­ly move over to this?
10:52:54 From Travis Teague : (good point there)
10:53:19 From Elon­Tusk : Why the issue with trees? Wind?
10:53:27 From Nik Hawks : Yes
10:53:31 From Travis Teague : made up of water
10:53:39 From Lyna : wind, uv even rain some­times
10:54:49 From Travis Teague : heh
10:54:58 From RM : Cool!
10:55:03 From Sean Med­i­na : bril­liant about the reward sys­tem
10:55:12 From Russ : what is a good spac­ing from trees
10:55:19 From Nik Hawks : 7x height
10:55:22 From Michael Corum : What is a “good” deploy­ment?
10:55:23 From Travis Teague : should get a Crue of Nin­jas
10:55:26 From Jay M. : Off top­ic ques­tion: Has any­one heard what is up with explor­er not updat­ing? I con­nect­ed mul­ti­ple radios last week that still have not shown up.
10:55:35 From Sean Med­i­na : deter­min­ing qual­i­ty of the sta­tion’s “proof of work”.
10:55:44 From Travis Teague : but who does that?
10:56:01 From Travis Teague : that cen­tral­ized. hard issue.
10:56:30 From Lyna : @Jay M yes we have some updates and Dev team do some fix­es on the explor­er
10:56:39 From Lyna : it will be back short­ly
10:56:41 From Travis Teague : how much does this cost?
10:56:56 From Michael Corum : Let’s have anoth­er meet­ing with Manos!
10:57:03 From RM : Super — thanks!
10:57:04 From Michael Corum : Maybe in August
10:57:11 From Jay M. : Sor­ry Lyna, ask­ing about Heli­um not weath­erxm
10:57:25 From Travis Teague : don’t blame Heli­um
10:57:27 From Travis Teague : heh
10:57:31 From Lyna : no prob 😛
10:57:34 From Jay M. : ask­ing about “Heli­um“
10:57:37 From Jay M. : 🙂
10:57:58 From RM : @Manos, @Lyna, count on us to help build this net­work!!!!
10:58:09 From Lyna : Thanks you all!!
10:58:11 From Travis Teague : thank you so much for your time today
10:58:12 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Super cool con­vo Manos and Lyna, appre­ci­ate you tak­ing the time. We are all super excit­ed to help!
10:58:15 From Michael Corum : Yep — we’re here — let’s do this in August
10:58:17 From Lyna : Sure you are our pow­er
10:58:21 From Eric Jonas : Thank you!
10:58:22 From Elon­Tusk : ?
10:58:23 From Jay M. : Can’t wait for my weath­er sta­tions. Thanks!
10:58:23 From 619OTA : Thank you Manos. Thank you Lyna
10:58:31 From Eric Jonas : Awe­some
10:58:33 From Michael Corum : Thanks — great one
10:58:37 From RM : ?
10:58:37 From Travis Teague : thanks Nik and Lee
10:58:38 From Sean Med­i­na : thx