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

@el_jefe

OK maybe I should clarify 🙂 :

• cheap == dirty cheap
• “readable” - ideally using some very easy to parse protocol - e.g., some thing just broadcasting openly readable packets into the network, or something like that

@piggo

@FailForward @el_jefe I'm interested in building this as well, so far I didn't do anything in that direction lol

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 @FailForward @el_jefe we bought this thing and it's actually surviving on few AAA cells for more than a year now

https://www.alza.cz/gogen-me-3900-d5695642.htm

@pony Thanks, good tip. Though at that price range, I can probably already get used Vantage Vue, which is like second best after Vantage Pro 2 - the top in this class. I was thinking more at the bottom of the barrel side of things 😄

@piggo @el_jefe

@pony Also, actually I really don’t want the anemometer (wind sensor) as it is always bulky (though there are static versions using ultrasound sensors) and measures only crap on a balcony. I’d need to put it on the roof to be anyhow useful.

@piggo @el_jefe

@FailForward @piggo @el_jefe yeah wind measurements are garbo (we have it covered with a house on one side), but i don't think that's a large part of the cost anyway

@pony It’s bulky, that’s my problem. I don’t want anything protruding more than 2-3cm from the wall. Firstly, I don’t care as I said, secondly, it takes space, fourth, I am sure I would just rip it off or break eventually by some stupid move around, and fifth I live at a place where we do have pretty strong winds few times a year, so if badly installed (which is almost a given with my DYI skills), the thing would just fly off the wall eventually.

@piggo @el_jefe