Too many options but there are 'years' of recommendations over 
in https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?board=71.0 if you poke around there.

For a $300-800 price range you will likely not do better than Davis but the 
crazy expensive part is getting it online so you can hook it into weewx. 
 You also need to consider if you want a LAN-only solution like most 
old-school folks do.   These days most vendors (Ecowitt) require a gateway 
that phones home to China occasionally for software updates or watchdog 
heartbeat checks.  Other vendors have moved to a 'feed THEIR site' model 
that you can't turn off (WeatherFlow, Davis with the new console) that many 
people are starting to object to.

For a LAN-only solution you can get there for about $600 if you go Davis 
Vue sensor suite, a old-style Davis console, and their absurdly expensive 
logger.  That would be plug+play with no vendor accounts etc. needed.   If 
you go with a Meteo-Pi third party logger you're down in the $550 range or 
so although the Meteo-Pi has some setup needs.   Both scientificsales and 
scaledinstruments have been great vendors for Davis gear historically so 
compare the two re: price.

Reason I mention Davis is their gear seems to last forever.   If you bump 
up your budget and go VP2 the pieces of the puzzle are pretty replaceable 
as things age and stuff eventually fails, but it's really big in size.

For integrating other stuff, I use MQTT to feed Home Assistant and display 
on a 8" Kindle Fire tablet running free FullyKioskBrowser.  Works great.

Since you have inside sensors you probably don't need the inside console 
unless you really wanted one, so you could get there with a Vue sensor 
suite ($300), a Meteo-Pi ($85), and a Kindle Fire when you catch it on sale 
($40).   That plus whatever gear you'd need to run weewx + HomeAssistant + 
MQTT and the time value of your labor and blood pressure.  Once you have it 
set up, it would run hands-off.   A pi4 would be plenty good enough to run 
all that stuff, although around here I offloaded HomeAssistant+ZWave+MQTT 
to a little i3 linux box (under Docker) for performance reasons.   I could 
likely fit everything on the pi4 if needed without too much worrying other 
than trying to minimize SD writes.

Careful with solutions that have the new Davis console.  There's no 
programming API there so you'd need to have the console feed Davis (ET 
phone home) and then your weewx setup would need to 'query' Davis for your 
data.  Not a fan here of those kind of things but that's where the vendors 
seem to be going.

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