Need wind sensor hardware, what is supported by hassio?

Hardware
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I have looked at netatmo wind gauge but as I understand it also needs the weather station and the solution becomes a bit overpriced just for wind metering. What are you guys using? What is fully supported by hassio? I know there is a wind meter for 433mhz but not sure about the results. Zwave? I want something that just works and doesn’t cost a fortune.

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Personally I use this one.

I’m happy with it.

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I’ve seen it and thinks it’s a bit pricey, I’m more into one third of that price, have seen meters at that price but don’t k ow if they are compatible.

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Did you manage to find anything matching your requirements? Your post is exactly what I had in mind!!

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Hi there,
I found an afordable anemometer that outputs wind speed as a voltage signal.
My guess is it wouldn’t be too hard to put together an ESPxx based package
Has anybody tried something similar?
ebay Link

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Hello! I finally betrayed myself and ended up purchasing an Oregon Scientific set along with an rfxtrx433e. Now I’m measuring both wind speed and rain and I get that information nicely displayed in Home Assistant

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Hi! Can you post the device you bought? I wonder if it’s the same I have been looking at. And how are the measurements. No glitches? And battery life so far?

Also, did you add it as a regular temperature sensor in hassio? I have the tellstik duo and wonder if it will work also.

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Hi there,

the model I went with is Oregon Scientific WMR86NX. Battery so far so good, measurements I don’t have anything to compare them against.

This is my configuration:

sensor:
  - platform: rfxtrx
    automatic_add: true
    devices:
      0a52020xxxxxx60269:
        name: os_outside
        data_type:
          - Humidity
          - Temperature
      0b55020xxxxxx00008b69:
        name: os_rain
        data_type:
          - Rain rate
          - Rain total
      10560223xxxx0006874205269:
        name: os_wind
        data_type:
          - Wind gust
          - Wind direction
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Nothing new on the market so far??! :’(

Which way did you go Mattie?

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I went with a 433mhz Oregon WGR800. It cost me 800SEK and it works like a charm. No problems so far!

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hmmmmm but no information about the direction than… no problem for you?
aaah wrong… if you google wgr800 there are a lot of different sensors. I thought it’s this one without direction measurement

Whats your hw to bridge the rf to your ip core?

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I have the same one and it works well. In my bundle I also got rain sensor and that one is not working as good as the wind sensor :frowning:

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That’s too bad. I thought about one too but I felt that wind was a bit better to have.

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I use an old tellstick duo.
It’s this one with direction measurement:
https://www.lohelectronics.se/hemautomation/433mhz/sensorer-1110/oregon-vindsensor-wgr800?utm_source=adrecord&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=adrecord

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Im having issues with my oregon, it works fine for about a month then it decides to change “id”. The values stop to drop in and when I search for sensors with my tellstick I find it with a new ID, is trhis by design?? Is there a way to get around this? for example by specifying a sensor with other attributes than ID?

Else I will have to email the reseller and return it…

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Same behavior here. It is weird because it worked well for 6 months or more then started acting up. I replaced the batteries and I believe that for a few weeks it worked well again but a couple of times it has already acted up on me again. I got delivered yesterday the solar panel that I believe is compatible with this product and I now need to test it. My gut feeling is that it WGR is a bit picky when it comes to batteries and when the voltage goes below a certain threshold, it reboots and hence it produces a new “id”. Would love to see other’s feedback on this too though.

Btw, don’t waste your time with Oregon scientific customer support. They are too busy to answer any customer support request.

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Hah ok, thanks for The info, let me know your progress. Sad about The support. How much was The solar panel and where did you buy it?

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Amazon. 35€.

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hey there buddy, got any more interesting news on your solarproject? Did you stabilize the wind meter?

I think ill send mine back, look below… One solution would be to select a sencor based oin the model instead of “id” in the tellstick component, guess that woint work tho…?

oregon 1984 25 SW, 0.0 m/s (0.0 m/s) 2020-09-29 12:34:35
fineoffset temperature 220 48.5° 2020-09-25 11:35:34
oregon 1984 19 SW, 0.0 m/s (0.0 m/s) 2020-09-29 12:34:53
oregon 1984 17 SW, 0.2 m/s (0.4 m/s) 2020-09-29 13:20:27
oregon 1984 15 SW, 0.0 m/s (0.0 m/s) 2020-09-30 12:37:46
oregon 1984 7 NW, 0.1 m/s (0.0 m/s) 2020-09-30 12:44:23
oregon 1984 12 E, 0.2 m/s (0.0 m/s) 2020-09-30 14:53:56
oregon 1984 10 W, 0.9 m/s (1.1 m/s) 2020-10-04 00:36:05
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Weather flow stuff is good and can be used locally without cloud.