Hi everyone! I finally have my DIY raspberry pi weather station in a reliable state to show it off and make the repo public. This was my first major python project so debugging took quite a while, but it’s incredibly stable now and is working very well. First up, some pictures:
Overview pic of raspi box mounted and sensor array on a 10’ pole.
Close up of sensor array with 3D printed solar radiation shield.
Close up of raspi box with custom soldered Hat. (Yes, it’s not technically a ‘hat’ because I didn’t add EEPROM. I still call it a hat though!)
Close up of sensor array connections coming in from the pi.
And finally the dashboard I’ve put together to show all the different sensor data. I also am using ClimaCell and a few DIY sensor boxes around my home in this view.
I wanted to purchase a weather station that worked with Home Assistant, but didn’t want to spend the $300+ to make that happen. I came across the official Raspberry Pi weather station build and realized I could build it and change it to broadcast over MQTT which HA would be able to pick up and display. Turns out I was right, and I couldn’t be happier with the result! It took several months to debug the code and figure out why it would randomly drop states after a week or so, but it’s been running non-stop now and is extremely reliable.
There were a lot of challenges to this project but it was a ton of fun to build and implement into HA. I’ve created a github repo which I just made public a few days ago for anyone else that might want to build something like this. It can be found here:
https://github.com/theoracle09/Weather-Station
I would estimate total cost of this project to be around $120 or less depending on what you have on hand. Please feel free to ask any questions! Thanks for looking!