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Options for a station to collect data locally, possibly send through APRS

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Oxyacetylene:
I am wanting to set up a weather station at home, and be able to log the data locally and maybe to the web. I am not yet on WU or one of the other services. Ultimately I would like to get the data out via APRS in conjunction with logging. If I send via APRS then sites like APRS.fi will log data over time as long as I am reaching an iGate. I have been looking at weewx as well for logging and presenting the data. What hardware would you recommend for the weather station? I will need something with either serial, USB, or the ability to set a custom URL for sending data. There are a number of cheap weather stations with nice looking consoles, but a lot of those will only let you select a checkbox to send to WU and/or WeatherCloud. Is there a decent performance station that I could use which doesn't cost several hundred dollars? I would even be OK with putting together my own station from a package of sensors if that is better. As for a console, a premade console would be nice, but I could probably put something together with a Raspberry Pi to just display the data. Once I get my station set up then I'd like to set up a second for my parents, and that way especially during power outages and storms, I could see the APRS weather from my handheld radio.

R.Sidetrack:
My suggestion is Ecowitt.  And you don't need to buy a display console. Take a look at the GW1100 gateway:
 https://shop.ecowitt.com/products/gw1100?srsltid=AfmBOooe9ov2DRMbs20uIl_jIJ__X2j00l5aQ5llmJVYE1U8OCJdUKAX

Pair that with whatever sensors you like. Good support. Your data remains "yours" without any ongoing fees. Easy to upload to a variety of sites, although I have not tried APRS.

While the GW1100 is suitable for what I think you said you want, a GW3000 adds wired ethernet, SD card data storage and remote retrieval, and an external antenna for longer range transmission from the sensors.

Wooks61:
For more information on Ecowitt  products take a look at:
https://meshka.eu/Ecowitt/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start

I use CumulusMX

Oxyacetylene:
Thank you both, lots of good info. I now have an Ecowitt setup on the way. I am thinking about future expansion, where I would like to monitor the inside temp and humidity of my detached shop, which is a metal building, and is about 300ft away from the house. If I used a second gateway, could I feed that data into weewx to be able to build a dashboard that shows all of the data? I was reading that weewx can only have one driver running at a time, so would that be fine if I were using the interceptor, and just feeding data in from two different gateways?

R.Sidetrack:

--- Quote from: Oxyacetylene on March 17, 2025, 09:37:26 AM ---Thank you both, lots of good info. I now have an Ecowitt setup on the way. I am thinking about future expansion, where I would like to monitor the inside temp and humidity of my detached shop, which is a metal building, and is about 300ft away from the house.

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I have a similar situation, my barn / shop has metal walls & roof.  My 'easy'  :D solution to managing data from multiple gateways is to just use the Ecowitt.net page and utilize the 'drop-down' button to switch between gateways. See screenshot  showing various gateways. (The 'drop-down' is black, imposed on the gray background, so is somewhat murky, but its directly above the "41.4F")

My CumulusMX installation just captures data from my main gateway.

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