Hi, need to get an outdoor rain/snow sensor preferably also measure the volume, any suggestion? Thanks!
A lot of people use Ecowitt.
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Thanks which model do you get?
Thank just checked Amazon.de and found one GW2001 for 250EUR, looks expensive to me…
Yes. The whole weather station is probably overkill for what you need.
You were using too large a resistor. Anything below a 10K would have taken care of that.
Yeah, I only had INPUT_PULLUP available.
Now I’m wondering how to wire this low R one with 30AWG steel core dupont wires…
I think you have hard time to find something that measures snow volume.
Bucket type sensor can easily measure water, but for snow you need something unconventional.
I apologize the snow-resistor jokes above… 
I have 2 WH90 heads at different houses, and one with the display panel and the other has a hub that I added a display panel to later.
I’ve added temp sensors, lightning detectors, and soil moisture probes. Everything has worked perfectly so far. Accessories just add a battery and they are in HA and WU,no effort.
They are both on weatherunderground.
won’t do the snow part but the Netatmo Weather Station is fairly good in my experience… Netatmo - Home Assistant
Smart Rain Gauge (and you’d need a base station too)
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You could use an ultrasound distance sensor that is pointed at the ground for snow depth. Similar to ones used for oil level in tanks. 433mhz receiver like rtl sdr addon.
Does everyone measure snow in inches?
it’s a bit like the Pulp Fiction scene about “they’ve got the metric system in Europe” so they wouldn’t know what a quarter pounder inch of snow is 
not that we get any snow worth measuring where I am in Ireland but it’d be in centimeters (cm) here and AFAIK most of the World outside the US
I’m up north. Co. Antrim. 1/4 Inch of snow and everything grinds to a halt. I can work in miles or Km and anything i actually measured I do in m or mm.
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small world 
north county Dub here…
yeah me too for measurements…both work, both understandable and easily convertible too…Pulp Fiction reference was my sorry attempt at being hilarious…
snow in any measure on this island grinds all to a hault and that’s clear 
Oh yeah. I think given demographics of the forum we nearly all remember that scene in Pulp fiction.
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