Acurite Access Bridge

[Bob Tyszka]

I am new to this group.  I used to have a PWS when I lived in California and sent my data to variouus websites using Weather Underground Heavy Weather Updater (WUHU).  Six years ago we moved to Florida and last month I bought and set up an Acurite Atlas 7 in 1 station.  I want to set it up to send the data to more websites.  The WeeWX page says to use the Access Bridge  with the Atlas station, but the Acurite page does not shown and bridges or Access devices.  So how can I get my station to work ith WeeWx?

Thank you.

[p q]

If your station has a console with a USB port, you may be able to use it and the Accurite driver. Otherwise you may need to use SDR (software defined radio) driver along with an SDR dongle.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM Bob Tyszka <wxge...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am new to this group.  I used to have a PWS when I lived in California and sent my data to variouus websites using Weather Underground Heavy Weather Updater (WUHU).  Six years ago we moved to Florida and last month I bought and set up an Acurite Atlas 7 in 1 station.  I want to set it up to send the data to more websites.  The WeeWX page says to use the Access Bridge  with the Atlas station, but the Acurite page does not shown and bridges or Access devices.  So how can I get my station to work ith WeeWx?

Thank you.

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[matthew wall]

acurite used to have two 'bridge' devices.

1) 'acurite bridge' or 'smartHUB' or 'aculink' - this was a bridge between wired ethernet tcp/ip and the unlicensed radio (915Mhz in US) used by acurite sensors. it was intended for use with the acurite 5-in-1 stations. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpSzHfdKbwM

they stopped selling these some years ago, and the devices are now useless without weewx (or similar) since they only communicate with the acurite cloud.  on the tcp/ip side, it sent data to the acurite cloud. you can use the weewx-interceptor driver to capture the data, even though acurite has shut down the cloud service.

https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/acuritebridge

2) 'acurite access' - this was a bridge between wired ethernet tcp/ip and the unlicensed radio (915Mhz in US) used by acurite sensors. it was introduced for use with the acurite atlas stations, and support other devices such as the lightning sensor.  

https://support.acurite.com/hc/en-us/articles/1260802415949-AcuRite-Access

you can use the weewx-interceptor driver to capture the data.  apologies, i never published a guide for doing this - acurite is not consistent in their long-term support for hardware or software services, and i shifted to sdr for this instead.  my preferred mechanism for capturing data from an atlas is the usb-sdr.  you don't get pressure, but you get everything else.

https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/sdr-rpi-recipe

in my experience, both devices work reliably (i still have a couple of aculink devices chugging away). but they were (are) overpriced for the functionality they provide, and sdr works better (faster refresh rate, more sensor data).

hope that helps!