Wifi weather stations

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Who has a good one; which can thumb its nose at harsh sunlight (I mean really harsh), laughs off hail, smiles through thunderstorms....and of course can give reliable metar-like info to your phone via wifi...without monthly fees?
edit. And not the $500 and up kind.
 
I have a Davis Vantage Vue system. But the internet side is self-hacked since the official stuff is like $200.

I had an earlier Ambient Weather system but the anemometer gave up after a year of wind. I suspect this one is probably less horrible: https://www.ambientweather.com/amws5000.html

This one looks cool, not sure how it actually does: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weatherflow/tempest-a-revolutionary-personal-weather-system

Most of them can feed multiple free services(free since they get the weather data to use for whatever they want)

Here's my current weather page: http://www.wormley.com/wx/
 
I’m curious... what do you need your own weather station for?
 
Ryanb said:
I’m curious... what do you need your own weather station for?
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I'll tell you why I have one.... I'm 2 miles from the airport but I tend to get much higher gusts. Also the airport doesn't report rainfall totals so it's sort of fun to see when we get our 70 inches of rain. And it's cheap amusement.
 
Davis is probably the "standard", though AcuRite also seems to be popular. Based on personal experience I recommend AGAINST the LaCrosse stuff (I've had failure of about 50% of the sensors here and the wireless pairing was a pain).
 
Dad and I put up a weather station from Ambient Weather that talks to Weather Underground at his farm a few years ago. It didn't last. The anemometer was the type with spinning cups and a separate vane for direction. The bearings in the anemometer failed in our harsh climate. We replaced it with a RainWise MK-III, which has a windvane with a propeller at the end of it. That has been much better so far.

They both required an indoor unit that connects to the Internet and talks to the outdoor unit using its own radio. The RainWise indoor unit didn't have WiFi, if I remember correctly. We had to run an Ethernet cord to a different part of dad's house to reach the new location where we installed the RainWise. The radio communication was not reliable with the indoor unit at the wrong end of the house. Plan accordingly.
 
I have a WeatherFlow Tempest system. It measures the rain and winds with no moving part. Also provides temp, humidity, pressure, and lightning strike detection.
Updates to their site, works well with Alexa, and the API to access it directly is pretty straight forward.

I'm toying with turning the thing into a little AWOS system.
 
I was looking at the Ambient Weather stations, but then I discovered you can access preexisting user stations here - https://ambientweather.net - and since there were two stations within a few blocks of my house and one less than a mile from the field I fly out of, it didn't seem necessary to get my own. It looks like you can even set up alerts based on conditions on someone else's station! Their mobile app is horrible though; stick with the website.
 
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