What is the best way to detect rain?

[masterkenobi (Ben)]

@Bahnburner

I’ve been using ‘sensor.dark_sky_icon’. Rather than returning multiple versions of ‘rain’ like light rain, heavy rain, thunderstorm, etc, it simply returns ‘rain’.

good idea.

@ih8gates, ok i will try it out for few days to see the accuracy.

In the mean time, i have purchased this 433Mhz water sensor.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Wireless-Water-leak-detector-water-leakage-sensor-bathroom-water-flood-sensor-for-Home-commercial-alarm-system/32667980933.html

I will use this to detect rain. Hopefully this is reliable.