Hi all,
I'm new to this forum, but I have been around reading stuff since a few days. Since I moved to my new house with a garden, I decided to start with my first weather station as a hobby.
After some reading, I was hesitating between Davis or Ecowitt, but I'll go for the latter, mainly because of the price and the amount of sensors that are available.
I'm currently asking a quote at Ecowitt for the following:
HP2553 package, which consists of:
- HP2551 console
- WH32B indoor temperature-humidity-pressure sensor (primary indoor)
- WS80 ultrasonic wind (6-in-1) sensor
- WH5360B rain gauge (with BS0002 bird spikes kit)
and in addition some other stuff:
- GW1000 gateway
- WH32 outdoor temperature-humidity sensor (primary outdoor) (with RS00001 radiation shield)
- WH57 lightning sensor (outdoor) (with RS00001 radiation shield)
- WH41 PM2.5 air quality sensor (outdoor)
- WH45 CO2 PM2.5 PM10 (5-in-1) air quality sensor (indoor)
- WH51 soil moisture sensor (2 pieces)
All above on frequency 868M (Belgium, Europe).
I plan to buy a Raspberry Pi 4 for acquisition and logging of my personal data via the GW1000 gateway and visualisation in an Android app (not sure yet which software I'll use for all that).
I'll use the console for immediate display of my data.
Not sure yet if I should use the GW1000 and/or the console for upload to online weather platforms.
I have no specific question, I'm just curious about your thoughts, advice and tips! Feel free to reply!