Hi All,
My current weather station, an Aercus Instruments "WeatherRanger" that I bought around 3 years back seems to be on the brink of giving up the ghost, the temperature has been pinging back and forth between -40 and +60 for the last few weeks, the rain measurement has been a bit intermittent over recent months, and today I've had some silly wind gust measurements.
In some ways I've been quite happy with it: it has wind, rainfall, temperature (inside and out), pressure, humidity and light all the stuff I'm interested in seeing. And until recently it's been pretty reliable and the measurements have been close to other local official weather stations when I've looked.
In other ways it hasn't been so good: it only connects to Wunderground, and they don't seem to understand that some countries use a mix of measurement units (being from the UK, I want to see wind strength in MPH and temperature in C, but Wunderground won't allow me to see both without switching units). Also, ideally I would have a way to easily retrieve (or store my data on a NAS etc) in the first place.
So, I'm looking for a replacement. I'm open to doing something a bit custom, e.g. using a Raspberry Pi and doing a bit of setup / coding, but generally I would like to achieve the following:
- All of the measurements I currently have, as mentioned above.
- A reasonable display showing current conditions / trends
- A choice of weather sites to connect to.
- The ability to store data on a local server over WIFI (if possible)
- Ideally something pretty robust - we get plenty of strong winds where I live (think gusts up to 100mph every now and again, but 60 mph gusts quite common)
The original weather station cost around £250 at the time of purchase I think - I'm happy to spend quite a lot more than that for the right station though.
Does anyone have any thoughts on the way to go?
Thanks for any thoughts!
Brutha