This is an option. It's pretty expensive, but it is super accurate
<https://davidburchnavigation.blogspot.com/2019/08/exciting-new-barometer-for-navigators.html>:
0.2
mbar across 990 to 1040 mbar. I have one and like it a lot.

I've written a weewx service for reading XDR pressure data
<https://github.com/tkeffer/weewx-nmea-xdr>.

https://www.dracal.com/store/products/usb_bar20_n/index.php
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On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 2:01 PM p q <peterquinn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Or buy a pressure sensor and hook it up to your computer directly.
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 12:36 PM galfert <galf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Correct. There is no console that broadcasts barometric pressure via RF.
>> There wouldn't be a need. Any console that has built in barometric pressure
>> has not need to broadcast that via RF as it is already built in, and
>> therefore the console has the data that it needs from the barometric sensor
>> to then upload to the supported online services. A station only needs one
>> barometric sensor. That is the purpose of the WH32B for use on the HP2551-C
>> which does not have a built in barometric sensor. The reason the HP2551-C
>> doesn't have this sensor built in was probably a function first of the
>> temperature/humidity sensor so that it would not cause erroneous indoor
>> temperatures as having those inside the display console would cause those
>> sensors to overheat and report a too high of a temperature. Different
>> display technology like the one in the WH2910C are not prone to temperature
>> increase due to display technology (it is LED vs LCD). The LCD displays
>> overheat, which is why the HP2551-C has the temperature/humidity sensor
>> external via the WH32B. So while we are at it the WH32B also incorporated
>> the barometric sensor on that device. This allows you to have multiple
>> displays at a lower cost all sharing the one indoor WH32B sensor. Ecowitt
>> does not list the WH32B on their websites but if you contact them and tell
>> them that you need the sensor with barometric sensor that would normally be
>> paired with the HP2551-C they will know what you are referring to. I'm
>> calling it a WH32B because that is what Ambient Weather Calls it. I don't
>> really know for sure what Ecowitt calls it officially. There is different
>> regular WH32 that is for outdoor use and that one does not have the
>> barometric sensor....so you don't want that one.
>>
>> On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 1:02:22 PM UTC-5, Gert Andersen wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> So there are no display consoles that transmit a barometric signal that
>>> can be intercepted by SDR?
>>>
>>> Gert
>>>
>>> On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 3:08:30 PM UTC+1, galfert wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yet another solution to keep using SDR is to get a WH32B from Ecowitt
>>>> that includes barometric pressure. This would be the same sensor that you
>>>> would need for the HP2551-C display console as it doesn't have a built in
>>>> barometric sensor.
>>>
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