Monitoring my weather at home • Hacker News Board

Re: Monitoring my weather at home

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Post by triyambakam » Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 4:33 AM UTC

codetiger wrote: post #14

Feeling sick of seeing Raspberry Pi based project nowadays. Use to love to read about such projects until last year.

The article addresses that

Re: Monitoring my weather at home

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Post by CottonMcKnight » Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 4:34 AM UTC

One of my favorite definitions from the Devil's Dictionary is: BAROMETER, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Re: Monitoring my weather at home

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Post by JZL003 » Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 4:39 AM UTC

riveralabs wrote: post #19

I cycle close to 100 miles per week and a having a good Weather app makes a huge difference for planning my rides. I developed https://apolloweather.com/ after Apple announced it was shutting down Dark Sky. For me the most important thing is not the accuracy but having easier access to certain metrics to make better decisions. Feels Like and wind are a priority for me. Also UV Index during summer (I live in Florida).…

did you find a weather API you found to be particularly accurate?

Re: Monitoring my weather at home

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Post by keyle » Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 4:39 AM UTC

The ending had me had me belly laugh...

      And if eink weather displays in the bathroom are unappealing to you, I just don’t understand what you’re doing here.

Re: Monitoring my weather at home

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Post by keyle » Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 4:41 AM UTC

Is anyone using a local weather station to ensure their random is actually random? :)

Re: Monitoring my weather at home

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Post by riveralabs » Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 4:51 AM UTC

JZL003 wrote: post #23

riveralabs wrote: post #19

I cycle close to 100 miles per week and a having a good Weather app makes a huge difference for planning my rides. I developed https://apolloweather.com/ after Apple announced it was shutting down Dark Sky. For me the most important thing is not the accuracy but having easier access to certain metrics to make better decisions. Feels Like and wind are a priority for me. Also UV Index during summer (I live in Florida).…

did you find a weather API you found to be particularly accurate?

I went with WeatherKit because it was easy to use. TBH I never paid too much attention to the accuracy since I care more about the big picture. I’ve used many weather apps since I started cycling and learned to live with it. I treat the one that I use at the moment as the source of truth.

Re: Monitoring my weather at home

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Post by xattt » Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 4:56 AM UTC

keyle wrote: post #24

The ending had me had me belly laugh... And if eink weather displays in the bathroom are unappealing to you, I just don’t understand what you’re doing here.

I’m waiting for this man’s opinion on setting up a DIY at-home weather radar.

Re: Monitoring my weather at home

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Post by ck2 » Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 5:29 AM UTC

secstate wrote: post #18

Love all the details here! For me, I skipped the crazy expensive Davis hardware and have built a network around the EcoWitt GW1100 station. It collects data at 900mhz from other EcoWitt sensors and sends it over a wifi network to WeeWX. In my case WeeWX is running in a FreeBSD jail, but it could be on any 24-7 powered computer on your network. WeeWX is one of those hackers projects that I just love. It's not pretty,…

btw EcoWitt makes the hardware for AmbientWeather (and a few others) so their parts are interchangeable

Re: Monitoring my weather at home

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Post by josefin_h » Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 7:56 AM UTC

Feeling inspired to start a DIY project like this of my own. It's a whole unknown world for me that I do wanna explore! :)

Re: Monitoring my weather at home

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Post by Manjuuu » Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 8:23 AM UTC

Let me just chime in to say that Next Thing Co was amazing, their small CHIP board was way better than the Pi.