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Everything else seems to be working great, but for the last few months my tempest has not been recording or reporting when it's raining.
Just generally curious if anyone has experienced this or if there's a fix for it before I climb on my roof and monkey around with it.
I've been working on getting updates to WeatherUnderground (https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KPACHEST97) , CWOP, and PWSweather from my Davis weather system. I have a Vantage Pro2 Plus, but the newer tablet-like weatherlink console that prevents USB logging. I don't want to pay money on a monthly basis for access to data that I feel I already own (I own the instruments!).
So I bought an RTL-SDR blog v3 dongle to intercept the RF signal. Davis uses a 915 MHz signal with frequency hopping in a band from 902 to 928 MHz. I found out that this is also where my water utility's meters broadcast at (and can read everyone's meters, that doesn't seem secure).
Through the magic of ChatGPT, Claude (and in the end, a lot of Claude), keyword searches, persistence, wxforum.net, and the Google weewx-user group, I was able to get the dongle to sense the Davis RF signal, follow its hops, and then send that data decoded for recording and sending off to services at faster refresh rates than what Davis allows. This was done using rtldavis (many thanks to Vince for putting this together and being so helpful on forums) and weewx.
I was successful getting it to run on a MacBook, and came close on a Win 11 Pro PC using WSL (an Ubuntu install, maybe I should have gone Debian). This failed because of some weird issue with USB. Ultimately, I have it running on a Synology NAS in a container, which was my real goal.
I am not a programmer by profession, though I have compiled things in Linux in my distant past. But with a little human help and AI guidance, I did get it working as well as I had hoped. If anyone here finds this at all interesting, it is doable! Happy to help, and I am trying to figure out if any of what I have done would be useful to share somewhere like github or docker. Advice very welcome!
Hello I have a Davis Vantage Pro II weather station that I’ve been using [mostly] flawlessly for more than a decade.
For the last two years, I needed to replace the battery as the communication would get lost.
Looking at the shape of my solar panel, it looks like it is the culprit. So here are my questions:
* Is 2.35 Volts on the sun the normal output for this solar panel?
* Do I need to replace the solar panel? If yes where could I get a new one? (That doesn’t cost an arm and a leg)
* Am I using the proper battery?
Thank you for your help!!
Currently during power outages my Ecowitt 'hub' (GW1100B) dies and the wifi in the house goes with it. The result is when power comes back on, nothing was logged from the storm (rain, wind speeds) which would be interesting to know how bad a storm it was.
If I had backup power for the hub to continue talking to the various sensors, would I later be able to see that in the historical data Ecowitt makes available (I view with app & webpage), or does the lack of internet behind the wifi mean that every second of internet loss = data loss? Would it log on backup power and 'fill in' the data from the period of internet loss once the internet is restored?
Howdy. I'm looking to get a weather station for my lakefront condo in WI. I just can't decide on anything. I've been doing a lot of research, but there's nothing that has caught my eye just yet. I'm looking to spend up to maybe $500. (This amount is fluid for the right system.)
A little about me and my condo, it's on Lake Michigan, and I'm on the top floor. I have a rooftop deck that I'd like to mount a weather station on. It's pretty windy up there most of the time. I do have power available, and for the most part, it's full sun for most of the day (depending on where I'm able to mount it.) There's a railing that should work fairly well to mount to. I don't feel like I need a pole or anything, as there's ample space along two of the sides with a railing. (The other two sides are building structure, one being a wall of my neighbors and the other being my wall where my patio door is located.) Do I need to worry about lightning and grounding a system? There are chimneys at the top of our building so my WS wouldn't be at the tippy top.
I'd like to have a few features: I live in AZ most of the time, so I'd like to be able to access it remotely. I have wifi available. I'd also like some sort of wall mount tablet or something, but I also have my phone and iPad, so that's not a dealbreaker. I think it'd be cool to share the data back to something like Weather Underground or something similar.
What are some of your favorite features of your systems? Is there anything that ticks all the boxes based on my requirements above? Are there any kits that I could buy off the shelf, or am I better off piecing it all together?
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Considering putting the mast on my house but worried that it would be a lightning rod. Any tips on doing it safely?
In general I like my new VP2 station and Weather Link console. My old console has been relegated to my astro observatory ISS (temp, hum and wind only).
On the new console I can't figure out how to get monthly total precip (from my station) for anything but the current month, (I dont have any past months yet, but I'm looking ahead).
When in the monthly data tab, all the info seems to be climatological or climatological forecast (future), not data from my station. Graphs have the instantaneous info, but no numerical monthly rain totals. I called Davis support and asked about this and after checking with someone else, he said that past monthly totals from my station were not available on the console. Same for annual, I can't see a numerical value for year-to-date precip, only the height of a bar on a graph.
I know this info is available on weatherlink.com for my station, but I would have preferred that the console had this info for my station instead of all the climatological data for my city
I'm hoping I'm incorrect about the and someone else with one of these can set me straight?
EDIT: year-to-date precipitation is displayed on current tab along with current month precip-- still can't find station monthly precip amounts
I've made a retro computer look-alike out of ESP32 and a cheap e-ink display. Right now, it works as my primary weather station. Firmware was 100% vibe coded, yet it works flawlessly for a few weeks already. Of course it's an Arduino project 😄
Links:
We are a small nonprofit that manages a lighthouse 3 miles offshore. We'd like to put a cellular weather station that could also manage a small trail cam. There is no power or wired backhaul. Has to be solar powered and cellular. We can put it on a rail at about 50 feet above sea level. But, it will have full marine exposure year-round.
We'd be grateful for recommendations for something that is tough enough to make it out there. But, something we can afford. Thanks to all for any advice.
Hey r/learnjavascript !
I'm a complete beginner who just started learning JavaScript and Node.js a few weeks ago. I built a CLI weather app as my first real project and would love some feedback.
**What it does:**
- Get current weather for any city
- Check weather for multiple cities at once
- 5-day forecast with --forecast flag
- Save favourite cities and check them all at once
- Fahrenheit support with --fahrenheit flag
- Coloured terminal output using chalk
- --help flag for all commands
**Install:**
npm install -g kunal-weather-cli
**GitHub:** https://github.com/KunalTiwari-git/cli-weather-app
It's open source with beginner-friendly issues if anyone wants to contribute!
Any feedback on the code or features is welcome. Still learning so be kind 😅
Hi everyone,
Here is my station at the summit of El Tucuche - elevation 3,071 ft (936 m), second-highest mountain in Trinidad and Tobago. The station is part of my OpenAWS open-source remote weather station network and was installed in January of this year. It transmits on the Digicel cellular network. You can access its data here and see all other stations in the network here. All documentation related to the design of the station can also be found on the site.
Okay I’m looking for a sanity check just to make sure I’m not missing anything when it comes to setting up a personal weather station at home.
I’ve basically determined that I’m going to use the ECOWITT GW3001 weather station as it integrates well with my home assistant setup. & add on additional sensors to it as I go.
Photo 1 - satellite view of hose (north is at the top.) 2 red Xs are threes that have been removed. The yellow circle is the current location of the OTA Antenna.
Photo 2 - North side looking south.
Photo 3 - east side looking west
Photo 4 - south side looking north
Photo 5 - west side looking east.
I’m looking for advice to see if it’s going to work well in my situation. My current plan for location is to add a 5’-6’ extension on top of the existing OTA antenna mount to attach the WS90 unit to. I’ll also get the extended cable with external battery pack which I’ll store inside the enclosure under the gable where the coax enters the house. (Will still need a ladder, but won’t have to get to the weather station to swap batteries.).
In my location our prevailing winds come from the south & west. So while the tree in the front yard isn’t ideal for getting unobstructed wind readings it’s mostly going to be a non issue I believe.
My main question is there any other place that it’d be practical to install it short of installing a 60’-70’ mast to install it on?
Having difficulty finding affordable outdoor temp/humidity-only sending units that report to an indoor base station.
I've had multiple examples in the past but they always eventually fail and then replacement sensors are no longer available.
Anyone know if this exists affordably?
MyAcurite is going away so I built a replacement app in an afternoon. It was mostly to prove a point to these companies. Building one of these isn’t hard.
I’m testing it now with my AWN (Ambient Weather Network) account. The catch is you have to deploy your own server (something like fly.io works fine) and bring your own API keys to process the AWN data. So not exactly plug and play yet.
If folks here would actually use this, I’m happy to publish a GitHub repo with a full how-to so anyone comfortable with a server deployment can run it themselves for free.
If enough people would rather skip all that, I’d put in the work to host the processing side as a web portal. That version could include the DNS redirect option for people who still have the hub, plus maybe other data sources. It would have to be a small subscription just to cover hosting. I’m not rich, so I can’t pay the server bill for everyone, but I’m not trying to make money off it either.
Anyone want any of this? Trying to figure out if it’s worth more effort or if I should just throw the repo up and call it good. Thanks.
I’ve been working on a weather site focused on real-time instruments and fast data instead of cluttered weather apps.
Current features include:
- temperature
- humidity
- barometric pressure
- wind speed + direction
- rainfall
- forecasts
- individual city pages
Site: vweatherstation.com
I’m also developing support for public personal weather station pages so users can share live conditions from their own stations without relying entirely on manufacturer apps.
Would genuinely love feedback from people here:
- What weather data do you check most?
- What’s missing from most dashboards?
- What would make you actually use a third-party weather site regularly?
I have had an Ambient Weather WS-1001 since 2014. It is time to replace it as various things have started to break and it just stopped working.
Is the WS-2000 a good model to get? Any other recomendations. I like having a screen that can be read which I keep in my kitchen, as well as internet connectivity. Any similar replacemnts from other brands like Ecowitt, Tempest, etc. I am in Canada and would likely buy from Amazon.ca.
This might be a little different from the usual prepper post, but it came from the same place.
After Hurricane Fiona, we were without power for around 9–12 days here in Nova Scotia, and some people around us were out even longer. That storm really made me realize how messy it is trying to keep track of everything during a long outage. Power company website, weather alerts, road conditions, cameras, battery levels, internet, Starlink, random local updates… it all ends up spread across a bunch of apps and websites.
So I started building this Home Assistant dashboard as a kind of “what’s going on right now?” screen for the house.
It’s not meant to be a clean little phone dashboard. It’s busy on purpose. I wanted something I could throw on a TV or wall display and glance at from across the room to see what needs attention.
Right now it shows:
Most of it uses a basic traffic-light idea. Green is fine, yellow means keep an eye on it, red means I should probably check something. During a storm or outage, I don’t want to read every tiny number. I just want the screen to make the important stuff obvious.
The power side is the bigger prepper part for me. My Starlink Mini is running on DC power through my EcoFlow setup, and the security cameras are also being kept on DC instead of regular AC outlets. With the batteries and a Bluetti Charger 1 alternator charger in my vehicle, I can usually get around 24–30 hours of runtime depending on load and how much I’m topping things back up.
This doesn’t replace the boring important stuff like water, food, flashlights, heat, radios, etc. It’s more of an information layer. During Fiona, not knowing what was going on was one of the most annoying parts, so this is my attempt at putting the important info in one place.
I’m still tweaking the layout, opacity, font sizes, and how readable it is from across the room, but it has turned into one of my favourite Home Assistant projects.
I’m including a short video/screen recording of it running, plus the YAML in case anyone wants to pick through it or borrow ideas.
Dashboard YAML:
https://pastebin.com/3NMqkyM6
Configuration YAML:
https://pastebin.com/7v14MSRB
It’s probably overbuilt and definitely not minimalist, but that was kind of the point. I wanted something more like a household storm board than a normal smart home dashboard.
A while back I started developing my own weather station from scratch using Arduino as my microcontroller and then eventually switching to ESP8266. I work in the paragliding industry and I am a pilot myself. I can imagine those in this industry would understand just how important weather stations are to us, and reliable ones too. We use them everyday to look ahead of the wind direction to see what is on it’s way. We see it’s a gusty SE day so we look further up at SE weather stations to know what wind strengths to expect and how soon. If one of these stations are offline it makes it really difficult for us to make a safe call, especially commercially. This is why I intend on building for my community my own weather stations so that I can both earn a bit more income and dive deeper into my interest in electronics as well as weather forecasts and predictions.
In the pictures attached you guys will see what is my basic prototype of a weather station for at home. It currently only includes temperature and humidity sensors as I haven’t yet gotten to build additional sensors and I wouldn’t like to jump the gun if the concept won’t work.
I realized in my previous version that the radiation shield I had used was practically useless in terms of reliable readings as it traps heat and that’s a big no no. I then came up with the idea of making my own shield with parts bought from the hardware store. I decided on using 5 110mm PVC endcaps along with threaded rods, nuts and washers to create an even spacing between each layer. I went with a spacing of 20mm, but before adding the sensors I thought to halt as I’m doubting if this would work. To me I fear that rain will enter and potentially if not definitely destroy my sensors. I am trying to stay optimistic, but I am also very realistic and sometimes too cautious.
Let me know what you guys think of this DIY Radiation Shield and if and how I could improve it. Preferably not by 3D printing because otherwise that would’ve been my first option.
List of components I’m using
•Nodemcu v2 12F
•Two Led’s For Status Indication And Fault Detection
•Two DHT11 Temp & Humidity Sensors(Cheap, but only for testing purposes)
•LM2596 Buck Converter
•Cheap Solar Charge Controller
•12v 7Ah battery
•Two 9v 5w Solar Panels In Series
I’m using Blynk services to display data on my phone remotely. This is crucial as it doesn’t require me to enable port forwarding on my router which requires additional fees through my ISP subscription.
Looking for a new weather station for my mother, which of these would you pick or something else in this price range.
My AmbientWeather WS-2902 looks to be in pretty rough shape. It's about 6 years old. I took it down from where it was installed on my shed since we're preparing to move. Should I even bother packing this and setting it up at the new house or just start over with a new one? The solar panel looks to be fried. It's pretty heavily UV damaged. It was still transmitting data to the station inside and still working, but should I just use this as an opportunity to upgrade?