Weather Stations

[armylifer]

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[skeets]

Mine is KIH 35, 162.550 mc

 

[JRHill]

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You never watched the Beverly Hillbillys?

 

[armylifer]

You never watched the Beverly Hillbillys?

Oh, then you meant Vittles. Food! I got it now.

 

[johnjk]

For the price and features I like my Ambient Weather WS2902A I bought a few years back after our lightening strike forced a technology upgrade. I had gotten a Davis Weather station as a gift which was toasted. Really nice unit but everything was an option that cost more. This one interfaces to my network, has an app and I can see what’s up wherever I am. Siri was telling me it was 49 this AM but with a coating of snow on the ground a Quick Look at the base unit showed it to be 26. If we take another strike, it’s a fraction of the cost of the Davis to replace.

 

[McMXi]

The AcuRite Atlas showed up today. It took me a while to get it set up on my home network but everything appears to be working ok now and I can access the data from my phone via the My AcuRite app, or from a PC via www.myacurite.com. I might need to do some calibration of wind direction, temperature, humidity etc., but for now it's agreeing with my old system on the inside temperature, and close to the same outside temperature that's reported by the HVAC system.

It's another crappy day today just like yesterday. I'll take snow over rain any day of the week.

 

[armylifer]

I ordered the AcuRite Pro Weather Station with 5-in-1 Sensor, PC Connect, Wind Speed, and Rain Gauge. This is to replace my LaCrosse Technologies weather station. Recently my anemometer went bad from corrosion of the battery compartment and probably the electronics inside. Anyway, it stopped reading wind speed a couple weeks ago.

This thread came along at the right time for me because I was already looking for a replacement. I just needed some good reviews to make my decision for me. Seeing as how several people on this thread agree that AcuRite is a good product, I pulled the trigger and bought the new one. It should be here on Tuesday. BTW, it was $10.00 cheaper on the AcuRite website than it was on Amazon.

 

[McMXi]

I ordered the AcuRite Pro Weather Station with 5-in-1 Sensor, PC Connect, Wind Speed, and Rain Gauge. This is to replace my LaCrosse Technologies weather station. Recently my anemometer went bad from corrosion of the battery compartment and probably the electronics inside. Anyway, it stopped reading wind speed a couple weeks ago.

This thread came along at the right time for me because I was already looking for a replacement. I just needed some good reviews to make my decision for me. Seeing as how several people on this thread agree that AcuRite is a good product, I pulled the trigger and bought the new one. It should be here on Tuesday. BTW, it was $10.00 cheaper on the AcuRite website than it was on Amazon.

I ordered from AcuRite directly too.

Just a heads up re barometric pressure readings. There's a learning curve.

From AcuRite's website.

https://support.acurite.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007680394-Inaccurate-Barometric-Pressure-or-Forecast

"The Forecast is based on the Barometric Pressure reading, among other factors. In order for the Barometric Pressure reading and the Forecast features to be accurate, the display requires the completion of a Learning Mode.

The Learning Mode algorithm begins with global average pressure (29.92 inHg). The weather station then takes 4,000 readings at 12-minute increments to calculate a running average and compute the barometric pressure for your exact location.

The pressure accuracy of AcuRite self-calibrating forecasters increases with each new reading over the Learning Mode time period. After 14 days, the Learning Mode icon disappears from the weather station screen. At this point, the self-calibrated pressure is reasonably accurate (although the algorithm continues to run; 4,000 readings = 33.33 days)."

 

[armylifer]

I ordered from AcuRite directly too.

Just a heads up re barometric pressure readings. There's a learning curve.

From AcuRite's website.

https://support.acurite.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007680394-Inaccurate-Barometric-Pressure-or-Forecast

"The Forecast is based on the Barometric Pressure reading, among other factors. In order for the Barometric Pressure reading and the Forecast features to be accurate, the display requires the completion of a Learning Mode.

The Learning Mode algorithm begins with global average pressure (29.92 inHg). The weather station then takes 4,000 readings at 12-minute increments to calculate a running average and compute the barometric pressure for your exact location.

The pressure accuracy of AcuRite self-calibrating forecasters increases with each new reading over the Learning Mode time period. After 14 days, the Learning Mode icon disappears from the weather station screen. At this point, the self-calibrated pressure is reasonably accurate (although the algorithm continues to run; 4,000 readings = 33.33 days)."

I read that on their website when I ordered the system. I also read about orienting the system so the anemometer reads wind direction correctly. I did a pretty thorough reading on the website before I ordered. Thanks for pointing out about the barometric pressure others may not realize that and if they don't know about the learning curve, they may be a little dissatisfied with their system until it finishes its calibration.

 

[McMXi]

I wasn't thrilled with the cheap ($5), plastic mount that AcuRite includes with the Atlas weather station (shown at bottom). With snow falling it was a good time to work in the garage this morning so I spent about 20 minutes making a new taller stand from 1" schedule 40 pipe and a piece of plate, both from my "scrap" pile.

I ground a flat at the top of the pipe so that the screw clamp would engage it. The pipe is about 28" long (I didn't measure it) and I used my Garmin GPS hand held device to orient the weather station to the south. With the deck being about 6ft above the ground this puts the weather station about 12ft above the ground. I'll paint it in the spring, but for now some cold galvanizing will have to do.

 

[Poohbear]

Alexa just gives you a forecast. A home weather station tells you the actual weather.

Just like my as we call them Aggie weather station. put a rock outside your window, if its wet its raining, if white its snowing, if gone its a tornado.

 

[JRHill]

It's a fun and useful hobby regardless of whether you spent $120 or $1200.

 

[McMXi]

It's a fun and useful hobby regardless of whether you spent $120 or $1200.

Exactly!

If you want to look at a phone or chat to Siri or whatever, that's your choice. I try to use my phone as little as possible and would much rather get information from sensors at my house. I can go to the store and buy meat, but the experience of being outside and hunting deer or elk is a far more fulfilling experience that you can't wrap up and capture in a piece of plastic.

 

[Buffalo]

Wrote my own software, which I don't mind sharing if you have your own server running linux. See https://weather.okiefrog.org/

 

[drygulch]

Boy am I lazy. I just ask Alexa for weather information .

Boy am I paranoid. I don't let Alexa on the propery.

 

[BAP]

Boy am I paranoid. I don't let Alexa on the propery.

You are not paranoid, just smart and Not lazy like people are getting to become.

 

[McMXi]

Boy am I paranoid. I don't let Alexa on the propery.

Me too. I don't use any voice to anything technology other than Android Auto when driving! I don't have or use Alexa, Siri, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, X, TikTok ... or any of that crap.

 

[drygulch]

Wrote my own software, which I don't mind sharing if you have your own server running linux. See https://weather.okiefrog.org/

Interesting. Have considered a weather station. This could draw me in as a diversion from other diversions from things I'm supposed to be doing for the wife...

So is there a standard interface on weather stations? SNMP support by chance?

Fun thread.

Greg

 

[armylifer]

Interesting. Have considered a weather station. This could draw me in as a diversion from other diversions from things I'm supposed to be doing for the wife...

So is there a standard interface on weather stations? SNMP support by chance?

Fun thread.

Greg

I am not sure if there is a common interface for them. Each brand seems to be proprietary at this point. Although, they all offer the same information at different levels, they do not talk to each other and the apps do not interface with each other either.

So, the short answer to your question seems to be no, there is not a standard interface at this time, that I am aware of anyway.

 

[Buffalo]

I am not sure if there is a common interface for them. Each brand seems to be proprietary at this point. Although, they all offer the same information at different levels, they do not talk to each other and the apps do not interface with each other either.

So, the short answer to your question seems to be no, there is not a standard interface at this time, that I am aware of anyway.

I second that reply. My station is AmbientWeather 1550. I wrote a Perl script
to scrape it's web server page, stash the info in a mysql database, from which I
use Perl scripts to display the data in various ways. That way if I change to a different
weather station sometime I will only have to rewrite the piece that scrapes the
web page. The rest of it should not need attention.

I have had no problems at all with the Ambient Weather station. If it ever
craters, I would consider their 5000 model as a replacement.

73 de Buffalo