Weather station recommendation?

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I finally decided to build my own weather station based on standard components: DIY Zigbee weather station

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Hi, maybe someone will be interested in that, i found software for weather station itā€™s name Cumulus MX, and it could be integrated with many weather stationā€™s. Also it can export data to many weather systems, also it can send data via MQTT. I think it could be best project to extend integration to HA.
https://cumuluswiki.org/

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I just bought a Sainlogic ws3500 and I couldnā€™t be happier with the results on HA

I integrated it via HACS with the Ecowitt repo and it gives you 35 entities!! Not bad at all. It also gives you the option of changing from miles to kilometres per hour etcā€¦

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INDOOR dewpoint ?

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Donā€™t ask me!!! Ask them hehehe

On the other hand, letā€™s think about itā€¦ if you have condensation problems it could be helpful, no???

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Indoor Dewpoint is a better gauge of Absolute Humidity if you donā€™t have ā€˜Absolute Humidityā€™. If you want to determine if the outside air is dryer than inside air in the winter then the best way is to compare dewpoints. You could have 50% humidity / 70F inside and 98% humidity / 40F outside and the air outside is actually drier, so you can open your bathroom window to lower humidity.

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Ditto :slight_smile:
Home automation is one things but environmental basics (aka quality of life) are anotherā€¦
Thanks for educating us, JR

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Iā€™m sure most here know this already, but for any new users looking at this, I wanted to point out that adding lots of entities can have a down side. If you donā€™t manage your Recorder settings (purge_keep_days, exclude, etc.) then you can seriously impact the size of the database. Excessive database I/O and size can kill a lower-end implementation, like on a Raspberry Pi with an SD card.

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Thanks for that idea, bought it as well; a lot cheaper as the Ecowitt and works perfectly. Combined with my Woox water valve, Gardena sprinklers, the SmartIrrigation integration and my Worx Landroid, my lawn now needs no attention anymore and looks perfect.

All of these different systems working seamlessly together, all thanks to Homeassistantā€¦

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Another possibilityā€¦Iā€™ve integrated a couple of ecowitt wh-51 soil moisture sensors and wh-40 rain gauge using an inexpensive RDL_433 radio (eg. RTL-SDR blue radio receiver with RTL2832U + R820T2 (improved) chipset / antenna | eBay and the home assistant rdl and mqtt addons.

I donā€™t get (or need) wind velocity or direction. The soil moisture sensors are a far better way to determine when to water an area.

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I was seaching for this and came across the Waldbeck Huygens 6-in-1: https://moltos.co.uk/product/933807
Is this the exact same device but cheaper?

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It looks to be the sameā€¦ Guessing similar devices get sold under different brand names. This will probably work with the same integration.

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Hey,
as @Remko said, there are indeed many products with the same device(s) underneath. I believe I have the exact same weather station, and there are more product names to it:

Fun fact: The box my weather station came in had yet another name on it :slight_smile:

There is one single difference. The Waldbeck display seems to have a colored overlay sticker :smiley: the design is the same but mine is simply white on black.

I use my weather station in combination with weewx plus entities defined here: WeeWX, MQTT and how to import Data - #9 by ThomDietrich

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Interesting integration you use to get the data. I use the Ecowitt integration. You can configure the weather station to use this protocol to push the information directly to Homeassistant and it works beautifully. I get the below sensors out of this, without further manual configuration

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I seem to get the same measurements, except for the aggregated numbers.

Weewx is itā€™s own software with database and long-term statistics. It generates nice views like the below. However! With a lack of continued development and some issues I had while setting everything up (including unanswered Pull Requests by me) itā€™s nothing I would recommend to just everyone. Itā€™s also a shame that there is no integration for Home Assistant for it. You have to define entities yourself, which is an annoyance.

I always liked the fact that Weewx comes with a bunch of preconfigured UIs. If there were a clever and tested dashboard configuration for Grafana, I would jump ship immediately.

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Nowadays I use the weewx web frontend for general insights and I have selected measurements in specific places of my home assistant setup, e.g. solar intensity on the solar energy production dashboard or outside temperature next to my heating system controls. Quite happy with the setup overall.

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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: