That's a good deal if you're looking for one with a display. Although I think I would still opt to use an additional temp/humidity sensor with it, since chassis heat build up is such an issue.
I know it sounds a stupid thing to say but I'm not so fussed over rainfall accuracy - and my bucket ones ended up showing 0 . I don't know how accurate the WeatherFlow one is. Onset detection of rain is useful and I got a nerd rush when within a couple of days of owning the WeatherFlow I got a lightning alert and shortly later a faint sound of thunder.
I see what looks like a version of the Ambient with an included colour display on Amazon too for not a lot more
I wonder if these really are EU licensed frequency versions.
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Yes, but the app we have available for HE pulls from Ambient Weather via their API. If you don't have an Ambient Weather branded station, it won't work. So any of the other stations will almost certainly need to be first imported into Weewx.
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I don't find this to be the case with mine.....I have a zooz motion sensor 5 feet from this chassis and the temps are always within 0.5 degrees of another. The Humidity reading is sometimes as much as 5% less than other sensors, but heat wise doesn't seem to be an issue.
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Ahh .. I see so they don't include that same cloud service.
I don't use Weewx but have heard really good things about it. It can be totally local I believe can't it, no Internet required and supports even MQTT ?
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My PWS history shows It rained 3 cats and 2 dogs last week. (unspecified breeds)
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Weewx supports WeatherFlow and there's a Weewx driver that @Cobra wrote that supports APIXU for forecasting data (WU too, but that part is broken at the moment due to the API changes IBM made)
I run a Davis vantage pro 2 with meteobridge.
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KOHOHIO10#history
It's not integrated with hubitat yet.. plan on using the pi to get weewx working at some point.
I also use a Davis Vantage Pro 2. I used an inexpensive USB to serial cable with some connectors I bought off e-bay to connect the weather station to my Linux server. I use the weewx software to log data to the "Citizen Weather Observer Program", as well as to record data in my influx database. From there I can graph the data with the same Grafana setup I use for my Hubitat sourced data.
Cable build information came from:
I don't yet have a need to get weather data to Hubitat, so I haven't made that connection yet, but it's possible.
Some recent rain - unusual for this time of year here:
very cool.. i will check it out! thanks
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Add APIXU driver or a WU driver and then you can pull in the forecast data and the fancy graphics. Use @Cobra ‘s Super Tile and you can better customize the tiles.
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