I've had a couple of the La Crosse home weather stations and they functioned ok for a while. But, the outside transmitting unit (referred to as the Thermo-hygro Sensor) only lasted a couple of months in both cases. Also, the little LCD base units were hard to read in ambient room light. I'd much prefer some type of WI-FI (802.11 standard) sensor unit that could be connected via my wireless LAN and stream real time data to my PC. Temp, wind data, humidity, rain, etc could be displayed on a small desktop window with updates every couple of seconds. Setup would be similar to an IP security cam, probably requiring an ethernet connection.
The interface I/O and GUI software would be easy to write. Firmware for the sensing unit itself might be more of a challenge. I've seen some units that can connect via WI-FI and stream data over the internet, but this doesn't interest me. Is there anything in the works to develop something like I've described ?