Weather station recommendation?

Hardware
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Hello, can you please describe how you did it, which port etc.

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hi there! can you query the devices locally? how accurate and what level of sensitivity would you say has the rain sensor?

thanks

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Does this mean that you can query the sensors locally?

thanks

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Correct, everything is fully local that way.

And to the rain sensor, the values are pretty accurate but it measures the rain amount and that is not an immediate response. So in addition to the weather station I build a rain detection sensor myself using a door sensor and a capacitive plate; this reacts to the first rain drop and I use that to control some actions. The rain amount from the weather station is used in the automation for my irrigation.

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Nice one!! I did not think of that yet but can immediately see the value. Might copy&paste your idea :slight_smile:

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That is the kind of guide I used to build this extra direct rain sensor.

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Slight addition to what @Remko said. There are multiple ways to get the data from the weather station. You can however not query a sensor. The station sends regular updates (e.g. every 15 seconds) and your counterpart processes and presents the data. Slight difference, very marginal effect.

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Yeah, I have been on a mission to reduce any cloud dependency and am very close to have it all without cloud now. Just my Worx Robot left…

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Absolutely,
my weewx setup is hosted on my own server and the data is only sent there (instead of e.g. wunderground). The remaining cloud service is Alexa.

Question: You say “it measures the rain amount” but my weewx setup has a few other rain related sensors as well. E.g. there is a rain rate, which changes immediately as soon as the first few drops made the thingy go “click”. The delay between first drop and sensor update is probably within 30 seconds. That’s not enough for you? Cheers

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Hi there @Remko and thanks for the clarification!

Do you know by any chance if those customized sensors can be purchased from some community member?

thanks

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It does measures rain rate etc. you are correct.

That is true as well, but I did notice some delay there. There needs to be some reasonable amount of rain and since I also use the information to close my awning for example I want an immediate response.

I did notice yesterday that my funnel was a bit clogged with some dirt, so maybe that also was a problem. We just did not have much rain lately so my checks are with using the garden hose…:wink:

Oh well…I have both things now and all works fine

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I don’t know, but it is really, really easy to build. Took me 15 minutes total.

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Thanks for that. I’m familiar with what you say because I run a 433Mhz receiver an a weather station set by Oregon Scientific. A rain gauge clearly does not cut it for my use case.

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There are lots of moisture/water sensors, for basements and laundry rooms, for example. I’m sure one of those would work if you don’t want to roll your own. Still, it’s very easy to de-solder the reed switch in a door sensor and turn it to another use. It’s a great trick to have up your sleeve if you need a sensor which doesn’t come ready-made.

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I bought a sainlogic ws0310 and can’t for the life of me figure out how to connect it to HA. their webui has no options for cusotm servers to connect to ecowitt. Can you provide any tips or tricks

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If it’s 433 MHz from the station to the display, use RTL433 add-on to bring in the data.

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Alternatively you can spoof the wunderground server address and connect the station to weewx.

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Hi!

Sorry to bump this post but, could you tell me about the frequency the data gets updated?

I’m interested in wind velocity to close some awings I’m installing this summer.

Thanks!

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Hello, i have a question ?
How exactly did you proceed, I’ve already tried it but somehow I can’t get it to work. Do I have to change the port somewhere ?

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thats the only thing I found: