outdoor weather sensor (request for advice)
I would like to get an outdoor weather sensor. Requirements:
- temperature, pressure, humidity, no wind sensor is needed (this is for a balcony in an apartment building, so wind sensor would measure only some irrelevant turbulence anyway)
- no need for graphic display
- wireless connected
- ideally “readable” by some smartphone app, possibly integrated with home assistant, or some such
- cheap - this is a hobby interest, not something to waste money on
- reasonably accurate, but again, this is not a pro app
- HW-wise ideally should work out of the box, no HW tinkering - some minor SW tinkering would be OK-ish
Any advice what devices I should look for?
@piggo ?
@FailForward @piggo I recently got the Neatamo Weather Station. $180 on Amazon. Comes with two cylinder-shaped units; one for inside the other smaller one goes outside. App is really good
But I think anything DIY will be more expensive but also more work than just buying it. I'm particularly worried about power, you probably want solar and battery and it must survive hard frosts as well as extreme summer heat and many heat cycles. Plus, water proofing. It's not easy to diy. As far as wireless goes, if you don't need real time data, it should be doable with something like lora. Wi-fi is probably too power hungry and doesn't pass well through metalized windows. Or, you could use irda if it's just about going through the window
@piggo Thanks. Well, no DYI really, that was exactly not the idea. Why I am asking is that for like 10 years I had something similar to this sort of a thing: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Dostmann-35-1162-54-Wireless-Temperature-Radio-Controlled/dp/B09J8N75S6/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=wetterstation&qid=1667761117&sr=8-9 for like €20-€30 surviving typically about 2+ years on 2 AA batteries. So I thought that maybe as technology advanced, somebody would sell me just that outdoor sensor (as I don’t care about that tablet display, or whatever that is). Maybe somebody reverse engineered the protocol such little things speak to the “tablet” and just maybe with a small USB dongle I could receive that stuff indoors. Or so I though… 🤔
