Can't beat the Davis Vantage Pro 2 Plus <https://amzn.to/2MTE8DV> (which has the UV and Solar Radiation sensors). There's other sensors you can add to it like leaf wetness and soil sensors if you wanted. It outputs a weather packet every 2.5 seconds.
If you don't want to do the DIY route to get the outdoor unit's packet data for cheap <https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=34817.msg354894#msg354894> like I did, then you'd need a Weather Link dongle of some sort. They have IP dongles <https://amzn.to/2w9s7CY> or if you prefer there's also the USB dongles <https://amzn.to/2Ph1UuO> - both work with weewx. Using the data for a smart home all depends on how you want to use the data. Once it's in weewx, you can install the MQTT extension and hook it into almost every smart home software out there. Mine hooks into hass.io using MQTT. MQTT also runs my weather website, so every time weewx receives a new packet from the outdoor unit, it's instantly on the website (thanks to weewx). On Thursday, August 16, 2018 at 4:09:35 PM UTC-4, Ray Racine wrote: > > Looking for recommendation as to which hardware (Weather Station) to get > with the following guidelines. > > - Fairly recent released model. > - Hobbiest friendly. SOLID SIMPLE INTEGRATION to the data. e.g. Which > hardware is best for solid, reliable USB integration to the data? i.e. > Which Vendor Hardware's Weewx (USB) driver is the most solid and reliable. > - Home / Personal station for use with "Smart Home" DIY software - which > is why solid driver integration to directly get the station data is key. > No cloud, no internet, no scrapping, no DNS redirect tricks, I just want to > be able to query the hardware (via USB or otherwise) to directly get "my" > weather data from my weather station. > - Vendor is supportative, makes available the docs, allowing everyone to > put together and maintain a solid Weewx driver for directly reading the > data. > > The above is the key criteria - which hardware supports the "best" > integration capability > > Above that would be good value for the price. > Solar powered station. > LUX light intensity besides all the usual weather stats. > > I'd take a "better" hardware external weather station with regards to > reliability and accuracy over a fancy a TFT fancy color console. > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
