New weather station installed at the family home. Hardware is by Ecowitt, it's quite low-cost, I'm curious to see how robust it is.
For Europe they recommend to order the 868 MHz version but because it's low-power and each sensor sends only a few bytes every minute, I've chosen to order the 433MHz version. I have thick walls and metal shutters to go though, so I thought it would help to use a lower license-free frequency. So far, it's working great.
The GW2000 base station (connected to the internet router) gives temperature, humidity inside the house and atmospheric pressure. I have chose the GW2000 because it has an Ethernet port and can be plugged into my router instead of the cheaper GW1100 that can only work through wifi.
The sensor on the left of the picture is a WH32 outdoor sensor giving temperature and humidity, it's under a radiation shield. The one on the right is a WH40 rain gauge with additional protection against birds. In the future I plan to install a wind speed and direction sensor (WS68 most probably) but they will be separated from the rain sensor and mounted on the roof, a must to get accurate wind measurement as the garden is full of trees and big shrubs.
Ecowitt has several "all in one sensors" but they won't work for me: if I put them on the roof, it becomes hard to clean the rain gauge regularly (and this is more or less mandatory), if I put them in the garden the wind measurement will be garbage.
All data is pushed to https://www.ecowitt.net/ in my private account and I can decide to share some of the channels on the public map.
I have also added a WN30 remote temperature sensor to the system to monitor the temperature inside the fridge and it made me realize quickly that our fridge is dying and can't maintain a temperature below 10°C which is not at all acceptable for food safety.
I plan to add a second one to monitor the freezer separately.
Overall, I'm quite pleased by the Ecowitt system so far. It's basic, mostly unencrypted, open-ish, low-cost and low-friction.
