Which weather station would you buy ?

[Olivier Garnier]

Hi ...

Can't make my ws-2350 work ... so i'm looking for a new station ... :°{

I want to connect it to a raspberry to show the data on a web site.

I need a wire connection (RJ11 or RJ45), the wall of the farm are too big ...

I'm looking for rain, H, Temp sensor and anémomètre ...

I'm looking for advice ...

Does it still exist (wire stations) ?

What would you take ?

Thanks,

Olivier

[vince]

On Wednesday, January 8, 2020 at 7:30:46 AM UTC-8, Olivier Garnier wrote:

Can't make my ws-2350 work ... so i'm looking for a new station ... :°{

What is your budget limit ?

Most folks always recommend Davis if you can afford it.

There are 'many' previous posts asking this.

Do a little searching the group archives for those threads.

[raenrfm]

Build your own!  It's fun.  My setup is a low power moteino reading my outdoor sensors, sending via RF69 915 MHz radio to my particle photon which posts the data every 2 seconds to my mqtt server, then weewx (running as a docker service on my 3 raspberry pi docker swarm) reads from the mqtt server.  The bonus is now that I'm setting up a HomeAssistant server I can use all that data from the mqtt server for my HASS server.

[salinois]

yes, built your own weather station, as me.

https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/build-your-own-weather-station/3

patrick.

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[Olivier Garnier]

Thanks,
I've seen it ... but i won't have enougth time to ?"manage"? it ...
Need something simple ;)

Thank you ;)

[raenrfm]

My system is pretty autonomous.  I rarely need to touch it, but I suppose it's not quite as hands off as a pre-built system.  I saw this one on Kickstarter, looks quite robust with ultrasonic wind speed and direction sensor, hepatic sensor for rain and even does UV and Radiance.  I just don't want anything "cloud" in my house so that is a negative to me.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weatherflow/tempest-a-revolutionary-personal-weather-system

[G Hammer]

Look at either Ambient Weather or Ecowitt series. Both are supported well with WeeWX, are easy to own, and inexpensive (for me).

[PJO]

I ordered an Ecowitt station in December; it's due to be delivered on Monday. Am currently using a FineOffset WH1080 and a Raspberry Pi running WeeWX. Not sure what you mean by walls being too big. Too big for what?

[Olivier Garnier]

Le vendredi 10 janvier 2020 02:57:16 UTC+1, PJO a écrit :

I ordered an Ecowitt station in December; it's due to be delivered on Monday. Am currently using a FineOffset WH1080 and a Raspberry Pi running WeeWX. Not sure what you mean by walls being too big. Too big for what?

To big for signal to cross them ... wire to it, wireless no ...

... I've dismounted and clean (there were little bug ...) the ws 2350 i used (curiosity before take it to trash) and it resurrected

I'll buy one next time ...
I've seen good things on davis ... vantage and WeatherLinkIP ... we ll see next time ...

[PJO]

I've now set up my Ecowitt system. Very pleased with it. The main :-( was the added cost of using a courier (DHL; all they offer) to ship to Europe and then VAT on the shipping on top. I originally wanted 433Mhz kit but they could only offer 868MHz at the time and I agreed, although 433Mhz was my original reason for preferring Ecowitt to buying from Froggit (rebadged Ecowitt) in Germany. There's some useful info on what can inter-operate across brand names on wxforum.com.

As it turns out I'm happy with 868Mhz as it seems work flawlessly -- I was concerned about it having a shorter range (I bought some additional sensors) -- and it means there's no interference with my existing station, so I can run in parallel for as long as I like.

I bought both an HP2551 console and a GW1000 gateway. The latter is now uploading data to an Ecowitt site and I'll use it with a raspberry pi and WeeWX shortly.

Ecowitt included no documentation with the package (not even one page; no "Getting Started", no inventory, no pointer to online docs, nothing). This seemed a little off, but not a huge concern and I was able to set it up, almost completely, without reading the online documentation. 

One surprise was that the GW1000 device is so small it could almost be overlooked when unpacking. I've connected mine to the back of a NAS (w a UPS) via a USB extension cable.

Overall, I would recommend without hesitation. The functionality is excellent and the design of the console display is almost perfect. 

[Steve2Q]

I am somewhat old school. I have a Peet Bros Ultimeter wired system. I have had it for over 15 years; originally in New Jersey then moved it to Florida. Have replaced the anemometer (struck by a tree limb), and the board in the rain guage. Extensive documentation and great customer service.

[Fearghas Mckay]

> On 18 Jan 2020, at 07:54, PJO <pon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's some useful info on what can inter-operate across brand names on wxforum.com.

That url is currently showing as up for sale :(

https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=wxforum&e=com
WxForum.com is for sale

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[vince]

On Monday, January 20, 2020 at 11:16:26 AM UTC-8, Fearghas Mckay wrote:

WxForum.com is for sale

 

I think you want wxforum.net there....

[PJO]

Oops. Sorry about that!

wxforum.net is down at the moment anyway. Looks like they had some hosting problems and are moving.