AcuRite PWS Monitoring

Configuration Frontend
1

Hello
It looks like AcuRite is changing the way PWS information is being relayed. It is moving to a mobile app instead of browser based. It means that I can no longer get information from my PWS into Home Assistant unless I intercept information over the 433Mhz radio transmission. Does anyone know of other options and / or will it be possible to somehow integrate the mobile app within HA?

Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.

2

I have a weird setup where I have an AmbientWeather WS2902C (so I also use the HA AmbientWeather Integration) but also I have Weewx running on an RPI4 that subscribes to information from the WS-2902C, using the Interceptor plugin. I use Weewx to log the data in the included Weewx database but also to transmit information to a large number of weather websites worldwide as it is received from the array, via plugins available within Weewx. I also have some daemons running on the RPI4 which makes REST API calls to HA to transmit the success or failure of the weewx trasmissions to the weather websites so I can monitor that in HA. That was 3 years ago or so that I struggle through writing that code using chatgpt for help in writing the code, but this* may be an easier answer for you...

I am pretty sure that Weewx has a plugin that allows it to talk to the Acurite weather stations. I also believe there is an MQTT plugin* that you could use to send the same data from Weewx to HA. https://www.weewx.com/

Also see MQTTPublish here (scroll down the page)

https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-user

https://github-wiki-see.page/m/weewx/weewx/wiki

Weewx is an amazing pieve of code. It is very lightweight and has these capabilities included (and more):

  1. Plugins to gather data from a huge number of weather stations
  2. A database stores this collected information - forever
  3. A website that you can customize to show this data (with plugins for a variety of dashboards)
  4. Plugins to transmit the data to a variety of endpoints - MQTT being one of them

I am SURE there is a way to do what you want. If there is, Weewx can do it!

Good luck