r/myweatherstation

I'm looking to purchase my first weather station and would like to build an app for personal use that ingests the data and manipulates it for display on some sort of custom dashboard.

Does anyone have recommendations for which weather station would be the most developer friendly while also providing accurate results at a fairly reasonable cost?

Ecowitt and Tempest both seem to be fairly well-regarded on this subreddit from the research I've done. Davis seems interesting, but a bit more than I'd like to spend while initially getting into the hobby. The biggest difference from Ecowitt and Tempest from a developer standpoint seems to be how they return data, but I'm not sure if there's anything else that I'm not taking into consideration.

Thanks in advance!

My AcuRite Atlas and Access hub only show their data through AcuRite's cloud. I wanted my own copy of every reading, my own dashboard, and no dependence on their servers, without breaking the AcuRite app or my Weather Underground uploads. So I built this. It's MIT-licensed, a single Python file with no packages to install, and it runs on a Raspberry Pi.

How it works: the hub sends each reading over HTTPS to a server name it's configured with. This program sits in that path. It records the reading, then passes it to AcuRite unchanged, so the app keeps working, and the hub keeps uploading to Weather Underground itself. There are two ways to set it up:

Change the hub's server name to point at your machine. No extra hardware is needed.
Plug the hub into a Pi's Ethernet port. The Pi gives it an address and answers AcuRite's server name itself, and the hub's settings stay untouched.

What you get:

Dashboard: every sensor, plus feels-like, wind, the 3-hour pressure trend, UV and light.
Sun and moon: worked out in the page, with no outside service.
US forecast: the hourly and 7-day forecast and alerts from the National Weather Service (free, no key).
Charts: any period from today to all time, or a date range. Rain totals for the day, week, month and year.
Every reading kept in a local SQLite database.
Easy to customize: one file for the colors, a folder for your own pages, and a documented JSON feed for anything you want to build.
Buttons that open your Weather Underground or AcuRite pages, in a pane or in their own tab.
Optional radio capture with an RTL-SDR dongle if you have no hub.

Tested on an Access hub (firmware 051) with an Atlas and six indoor tower sensors. If you have other AcuRite sensors, I'd like to hear whether they show up properly.

I built this with Claude Code (AI-assisted). The design, testing and hardware work were mine.

https://github.com/akienm/CC0AC-Weather

Not affiliated with AcuRite.

r/myweatherstation

Best weather station for ingesting/manipulating data?

I wrote a free, open-source local dashboard for the AcuRite Access hub. Your data stays on your own machine, and the AcuRite app and Weather Underground keep working.