Topic: Sharing your sensors with a neighbor - a good story

[Rover1822]

Long story short, I gave my neighbor a GW1000, a temp sensor for his greenhouse, and a pool temp sensor (They just had a pool installed)
They are across the street, and about 300' from my house.

Well,. I just helped him set it all up, and I was amazed how many of my sensors from my property it picked up. From my WS90s, WH65, WH40s, soil moisture , PM2.5s, etc...

It overwhelmed him initially, then I walked him through the procedure to disable some of my stuff. The conversation that followed, was cute, nope, I want that one (like rainfall, wind, outdoor temp, air quality , solar). 

So, in the end a cheap gift, with a purpose for a neighbor (and yes I get to use the pool), and it is great to have good neighbors.

[KC5JIM]

That is really great!

[Rover1822]

Well, it kind of works. I did mention my sensors were quite far away. LOL, he is probably better off with his own sensors as opposed to sharing mine.

We had a rather heavy period of rain yesterday, his GW100 is reading my WS90 and one of my WH40s. This morning I checked his values against mine on rainfall, they were substantially lower than mine (on Ecowitt.net). I then looked at his tabular data for the period , and sure enough , my sensors were dropping off his data for periods, a few as long as an hour. Now his own sensors and  the GW1000 were fine, these were just mine dropping out due to distance. What was interesting in one case it that it was long enough to cause the rain event total to go to 0.

So if you are thinking about sharing your sensors , be aware, distance does matter for consistent data, as it does for your own if too far away.