Need a Zigbee or Z-Wave lux sensor for outdoors

[ronv42]

@user2574

but couldn't see if anyone got them locally connected with UDP, or if the cloud API is the only viable option.

You can't do UDP with Hubitat but Hubitat supports MQTT so I use WeeWx to collect the UDP broadcasts and publish the records via MQTT.

Tempest -> UDP broadcasts -> WeeWx UDP Integration -> MQTT Topic

MQTT Topic <- Ron's MQTT app <- Hubitat

WeeWx MQTT Listener Framework Driver

I was up late last night cleaning up local access to the MQTT driver of a WeeWx implementation that is hosting my WeatherFlow Tempest weather station. It's very basic, has some error handling to reconnect to MQTT if the connection is dropped. Also just for better understanding there are 3 json payload types that WeeWx puts on the weather/loop topic: 1 Minute Observations 3 Second wind and rain 5 Minute WeeWx archive observation To keep updates to a minimum I filter for the 1 minute observati…