pinballwizard

Open source, self hosted weather stations?

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Open source, self hosted weather stations? - Divisions by zero

Does anyone know of a FOSS weather station? I have a Linux based home computer lab and I want to be able to track atmospheric pressure, temperature, and wind specifically. It would be nice to be able to detect rain as well if possible. So I need both a server to have on linux, PLUS the weather station. Does anyone have any recommendations? I strongly prefer large amounts of open documentation as well. Thank you!

Feb 22 at 8:38pmWeb
Show threadSomeAmateurFeb 22
I would look at ESP32 boards and make something like this
DIY Weather Station With ESP32

DIY Weather Station With ESP32: Hello! Today we are going to look at this smart weather station I built. The weather station I built measures temperature, humidity, air pressure, wind speed and direction, and the amount of rain that falls. All the data is collected by an ESP32, wh…

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Show threadJelleWhoFeb 22
I personally run an ESP32 with ESPHOME integrated into Home Assistant. So I can also say this is a good way
Show threadpeteyFeb 22
I’ve recently gotten into ESPHome and am in love. I was in a bit of a rush so got Claude Code to do the YAML for me, but it looks easy to hand write. I’ve make an ePaper dashboard, a control hub with an Guition LCD module I had lying around, and a garage door opener controller, all just in the last couple of weeks
Show threadadenozFeb 22
@pinballwizard Just a suggestion, that may not suit your needs, is that one option would be using a proprietary weather station (good open source hardware options are limited, especially for wind and rain etc), that has a local API that may provide a local REST (http) endpoint or may publish #mqtt messages. Then you could grab that data locally with no cloud. You could also block any cloud connection it may have via firewall rules so no firmware update push can brick it. I’m a bit rusty on the current state of weather stations but there are options for this approach.
Show threadadeoxymusFeb 22

What do you mean? FOSS? Open hardware or able to integrate with existing foss like home assistant?

For the latter, I’ve used ecowitt based weather stations myself. they’re very durable, give reliable data and came with a quality manual for not much money.

They come with an app but you can just decide not to use it, all the data is available on the device, hosted as a web server. It has good integrations with HA which is what I use for long term storage together with influxdb.

Show threadPiraHxCxFeb 22
Man, Benn Jordan made an awesome movie this!
youtu.be/W_F4rEaRduk?t=930
Gadgets For People Who Don't Trust The Government

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Show threadmoonshadowFeb 22

github.com/vinthewrench/offgrid-weather-station

haven’t actually done it, but this is the best writeup I’ve found. Now it can sit in your pile of projects to get to someday too!

GitHub - vinthewrench/offgrid-weather-station: A fully local, Raspberry Pi–based weather station using an Ecowitt WS90 and RTL-SDR.

A fully local, Raspberry Pi–based weather station using an Ecowitt WS90 and RTL-SDR. - vinthewrench/offgrid-weather-station

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Show threadDingalingFeb 22

I used wview for years, and published a couple of weather stations publically.

Nowadays I just run Home Assistant and combine an anenometer, a rain tip gauge and about a million different temperature sensors into that, mostly with 8266’s running Esphome to collect and forward that data. It’s a fun and cheap little hobby if you like collecting data. The gauge and anenometer were off aliexpress for about £5 each, the esps about the same, and temp sensors less than a quid each. All software foss of course, and uses almost no resources so can run on any linux server.

Show threadzelifcamFeb 22

It’s not FOSS solution. However, www.amazon.com/dp/B01N5TEHLI You can easily pick up the data locally using a usb SDR like www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMKZCKTF

Ya might pick up everyone’s in the neighborhood :)

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