Hello you all,
Now, arriving at Christmas, I did have a surprise: I received a family voucher of 249.99 (really) for a weather station.
I wanted a station that allows the following measurements:
- Wind speed and gust recording without danger of it breaking into pieces;
- Wind direction;
- Barometric pressure with trend indication;
- Humidity with possible sensors of at least 3 (indoor and outdoor);
- Temperature (with good RS), with possible sensors of at least 3 (indoor and outdoor);
- Dew point;
- Rainfall and with indication of rain/rate;
- Thermal sensation / wind chill;
- Forecasts with some reliability, namely regarding more extreme events or frost warnings;
- data is automatically shared online (Wunderground, for example) and accessible from the mobile phone;
- have software that can record the data (I don't know if online sharing with Wunderground allows this, for example, to check aggregated data from 20 months earlier or the temp. on a given day 30 months ago), even if this data have to be downloaded to a computer (or that downloading does not have to imply always having a computer turned on);
- any kind of software can be compatible with Mac (I haven't used Windows for over 20 years and I don't intend to return
;
And if possible:
- Soil moisture sensor (the most important of these extras);
- Evotranspiration (okay, it's handy for my future cultures but I believe that this type of sensor already goes to much higher price stations;
- UV radiation;
- TFT or color screen is not necessary, but I have already noticed that the most complete stations currently have these attributes;
- and for last, if possible, to have the station fully autonomous, with energy supplied by a solar panel, all the better. But if this forces the price to rise significantly, then better not.
There is potential interest in this station being placed, in the future, on a place that I have no electrical connection, so if it is possible to share data via radio or via web connection via a router with solar energy, even better;
Thanks for all opinions and sorry my english (i'm portuguese).