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I don't want fancy screens, I just want raw data - what should I buy?

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ollybear:
Hi,

I bought my first weather station 3 and a half years ago - an Aercus WeatherSleuth.  It was cheap (~£140) but it got me interested in the subject.  It has no screen or display, rather the "base station" is a little box with a radio interface to talk to the internal and external sensor units, and an ethernet port.  It can publish data to WU, but I just use a script that runs every 30 seconds on a computer which pulls the current sensor values and then puts them into a database.  Then I use Grafana to display the data.

https://burchettsgreen.com/index.php/information/13-weather

That design works for me.  I don't want any fancy screens.  However the Aercus unit has started to get a bit flaky.  The radio-ethernet unit has always been buggy and I had to build a little device which automatically reboots it when it locks up.  Then the pressure sensor became unreliable, so I now use a little temp/baro unit that I have connected to a Raspberry Pi.  Now the UV sensor has failed and the sunlight sensor seems to be close behind.

So, I would like to get some new kit.  But from looking around it seems that the cost of many weather stations is due to fancy units for displaying data, which I'm not bothered with at all.  I just want to be able  to poll for all of the sensor data every 30 seconds via some protocol over TCP/IP (ideally HTTP). 

Happy to spend a  bit more money to get something more accurate and reliable, and would be grateful for advice.  Looking for "standard" measures - Temp, pressure, UV, sunlight, humidity, wind dir and speed etc.

Thanks in advance!

Olly.

PaulMy:
You can't go wrong with Davis... VP2 ISS and Weatherlink Live.


Enjoy,
Paul

ollybear:
Thanks Paul, I'll have a look...


--- Quote from: PaulMy on September 28, 2021, 10:12:42 AM ---You can't go wrong with Davis... VP2 ISS and Weatherlink Live.


Enjoy,
Paul

--- End quote ---

Mandrake:
I would highly recommend that you take a look at the Ecowitt products.
They sell some headless weather stations and have the massive advantage of being modular so that you can add sensors as you need or want.
The systems are also highly repairable.

High end headless is the GW1003 ($260) but not available in the USA
https://www.ecowitt.com/shop/goodsDetail/34

or the easy option is to build a station around the GW1000 which is the headless receiver (you interrogate this via TCP/IP and can hook up all sorts of software to monitor the weather sensors)
https://www.ecowitt.com/shop/goodsDetail/107  ($35)
and then add the various sensors you want like anemometer.
You can find this all here:
https://www.ecowitt.com/shop/homePage

I would highly recommend that you take a look unless you have very deep pockets for the Davis kit

davidefa:
In the UK you can find ecowitt products rebranded watson at incredible price ( see watson 8686 )

P.S.
By the way I have this version ( without console ) but rebranded Waldbeck

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