Monitoring my weather at home
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Monitoring my weather at home
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Re: Monitoring my weather at home
#2Do any the of the Davis products come with air pollution sensors?
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#3Do any the of the Davis products come with air pollution sensors?
For a DIY project like this our open hardware air quality monitor might be a good fit: https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/outdoor/
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#4I'm using a Yocto Meteo v2 for that, it's expensive but it's very good hardware and software: https://www.yoctopuce.com/EN/products/usb-environmental-sens...
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#5Looks like you can skip the logger and get a cheap rtlsdr to log data wirelessly (using e.g. https://github.com/bemasher/rtldavis). A cheaper still route would be to grab the outdoor sensors for a weather station supported by rtl_433 (or receive signals from a neighbor!)
If you don't mind a DIY approach you can use ESPHome to quickly integrate some low cost sensor modules (e.g. BME280s).
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#6Been a long time since I've seen a CHIP
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#7One of the most unexpected and wonderful things about my Ambient Weather station is that within its settings app, you can configure an additional URL for it to send periodic pings to. In my case, I whipped up ambient2mqtt[0] as a way to capture the output of the weather station locally and do what I want with it - in this case, post the data to MQTT and InfluxDB.
A few years after that I also purchased a Purple Air PM2.5 monitor. I was pleasantly surprised that this device exposes a local REST interface for polling the data. Naturally, I wrote purpleair2mqtt[1] to pull the data from that and post to MQTT and InfluxDB.
Together these two applications and pieces of hardware give me a great view of the weather conditions. And like the author of the article, I found that other weather information tended to be off significantly. Doubly true as I live next to a lake in a rural-ish part of New England which is about 500ft higher than the city and airport where our weather data comes from. Over the last couple of years I've been pleased to see that my data has become the defacto source for weather data in my town (I publish it to numerous sources) and that the PM2.5 information gets brought into lots of reports, including the EPA's AirNow system - which is great, because it doesn't look like there's another PM2.5 monitor within 20 miles of me.
[0]: https://github.com/pridkett/ambient2mqtt [1]: https://github.com/pridkett/purpleair2mqtt
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#8One of the most unexpected and wonderful things about my Ambient Weather station is that within its settings app, you can configure an additional URL for it to send periodic pings to. In my case, I whipped up ambient2mqtt[0] as a way to capture the output of the weather station locally and do what I want with it - in this case, post the data to MQTT and InfluxDB. A few years after that I also purchased a Purple Air P…
Thank you for ambient2mqtt! I have been using that for a bit over a year now to interface with home assistant
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#9How useful are wind vanes and anemometers on typical home weather stations?
When I was putting together my DIY weather station I got this weather meter kit [1] from Sparkfun that includes a rain gauge, a wind vane, and an anemometer.
Later I realized that because of all the tall trees all around my neighborhood (Western Washington) and the less tall trees at my house and the house itself being in the way the wind direction and speed a couple meters above the ground near my house would not really be all that interesting.
In retrospect I wish I had just bought the rain gauge. Sparkfun doesn't sell that separately but Argent Data Systems has a product that seems to be identical to the Sparkfun one [2], but they also sell the individual sensors separately. Here's the rain gauge [3].
[2] https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?products...
[3] https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?products...