Suggestions for good starter weather station 2019

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James Dickens

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Jun 5, 2019, 6:14:30 PM6/5/19
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Hi

I have been thinking about getting a weather station, saw weewx and am excited about it, but don't know what weather station is compatible good to start with, just need internal and external temperatures and humility that is easy to  setup to with weewx, Nice lcd display on the station would be nice, instant eye candy before weewx would be great.  Wireless is a plus. The weather station budget is about $50 or so.  Already have a Raspberry or can spin up a VM to run the software. 

Thanks

James 


Ideas (yes I like amazon) but don't know if they can talk to weewx and home much pain is involved in setup. 

https://www.amazon.com/AcuRite-02027A1-Temperature-Humidity-Forecaster/dp/B00GLDQFPY




p q

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Jun 5, 2019, 6:29:13 PM6/5/19
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If you can find out if the Acurites have a USB connection you can connect it right up to the Raspi and be in business. If they don't, I don't know how you'd do it. I have one of the older 5 in 1s and it has a USB output that I use with a Raspi 2 and Weewx. 

By the way, you can pretty much ignore the displays. You're going to get something much better with Weewx if you set it up the way you like it.

If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't buy a weather station. I'd buy the sensors and connect them to the PI. Something like this: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8942 or https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/build-your-own-weather-station/
You can get a ton more functionality for less money if you build it yourself. 

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rich T

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Jun 5, 2019, 7:17:07 PM6/5/19
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First, you need to figure out how you would want to interface Weewx i.e. USB cable or Wireless.  The three you looked posted would need a SDR. Second, you would need to find out if there are weewx drivers to support the weather station.

Weewx Hardware Support --- http://www.weewx.com/docs/hardware.htm 

Rich
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