@mwall, Thanks a lot for the reply, this is very helpful. The acurite sensor i have been using is indeed a good solution if i could bypass the challenges i've faced with the USB to display connection. It sounds like the USB to SDR adaptor is a going to solve the problem, awesome! I am not too concerned about losing the pressure sensor, my main use of the station is temperature, wind speed and wind direction. Is there any particular dongle that you would recommend?
And is there any particular acurite base station model you would recommend? @Xant, thanks for your reply. I actually contacted Weatherflow about purchasing their smart PWS but they replied to me and said they cannot sell it to me because i am located in the UAE and their product is not yet certified to operate properly here. On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:51 PM mwall <goo...@lancet.mit.edu> wrote: > > > On Friday, December 13, 2019 at 1:42:32 PM UTC-5, Sean Jahnig wrote: >> >> Are there any better suggestions for a weather station that is more >> reliable than the acurite? > > > many. > > but the easiest thing for you would be to buy a US$20 usb-sdr dongle, > install the weewx-sdr driver, and start capturing data from your existing > hardware using that. you would also have to add a pressure sensor - this > is easily done with an inexpensive chip/board that you snap onto the rpi, > install a weewx service, and that adds pressure to the observations. (the > acurite console has the pressure sensor in an acurite-only system) > > here is a guide for how to do it: > > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/sdr-rpi-recipe > > or you could purchase an acurite smarthub (no longer manufactured, but > might be able to find one cheap) or an acurite access (about $40), and > capture data from that using the weewx-interceptor extension. > > the 5in1 instruments are not bad. it is only the consoles that are > flaky. some of the console models work pretty well, but given the iffy > nature of usb on some rpi models, it is not the most robust solution. > > m > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/eVspWV-fNI0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/5a158b9a-0977-4ee9-93e1-f1f741cd8959%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/5a158b9a-0977-4ee9-93e1-f1f741cd8959%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CALeSoZmLrrNu7zM6CWmRYznwOhK_x04d9MPmW_8fkm%3Db5U39YA%40mail.gmail.com.
