Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite not so accurate on sunny days

Thanks for the information Chris. I've kind of committed to replacing the unit since my wife bought me another one but I'll check all that before I send it to my daughters house. Tony On Apr 20, 2017 12:03 PM, "Chris Swanda" wrote: > Tony, > > On my 5-1 unit, spiders

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite not so accurate on sunny days

M, I missed the last part when reading this on my phone but the intercept driver looks like the answer to my issue if I'm using the Ambient 900. Heck... I'll give my Acurite to my daughter to use out on their farm win-win lol! You guys are so smart!! Thank you for your help. Tony On

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite not so accurate on sunny days

M, That is way cool!! I can let the Ambient upload to Weather Underground and I'll capture the sensors and use that with WeeWx to upload to my website. The SDR hardware looks pretty cheap. Would something like this work?

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite not so accurate on sunny days

On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 4:08:26 PM UTC-4, Tony Turner wrote: > > Craig, I'm very interested in trying this. My wife told me yesterday that > she has bought me an Ambient Weather 900 IP Observer since my Acurite is > not working the way it should. I'm not sure about the Ambient Weather

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite not so accurate on sunny days

Craig, I'm very interested in trying this. My wife told me yesterday that she has bought me an Ambient Weather 900 IP Observer since my Acurite is not working the way it should. I'm not sure about the Ambient Weather unit but I do know it only uploads to Weather Underground which means it

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite not so accurate on sunny days

The weewx driver is here: https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-sdr I don't think it's complete, and there were some things I had to work out, but you can search for the answers here. One thing to keep in mind is that the pressure sensor for my Acurite system, and probably all the others, is in

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite not so accurate on sunny days

Craig that sounds pretty interesting. I assume this should be another topic because I want to know more about the SDR. I have a very old Acurite unit that does not have a USB interface but it's REALLY accurate. It would be nice to be able to intercept the signal and use it with weewx. I assume

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite not so accurate on sunny days

Software Defined Radio. The way I am using with weewx is with a USB tuner built for DVB-T TV broadcasts in other countries (but not the U.S.) that use the RTL2832U chipset. People discovered that these tuners could cover a much larger range than DVB-T and have been using them for receiving

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite not so accurate on sunny days

On Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 6:32:27 PM UTC-5, Andy wrote: > > (snip) I am also using the SDR and a Honeywell sensor from Craigslist free > section. Maybe I'm just dumb but what is and SDR?? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group.

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite not so accurate on sunny days

Maybe my fan isn't running, since I've got the dual solar panel version. I'll figure it out Sunday. The sensor on my front porch must be getting some light around 6 pm, because it gets too high then. Maybe I should figure out a way to get weewx to use the lower of the two temperature sensors

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I bought the cover with the dual solar panels to help with the hot sunny days in the Sacramento area. First dual panel cover failed and they sent me an entire 5n1 with a dual solar panel after this post https://support.acurite.com/acurite/topics/outside-temp-to-high The dual solar panel keeps

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Thanks Tom, I'll spend some time this weekend and fashion some sort of shade for the unit. The temperature sensor is under unit supposedly in the shade with a fan that pulls air by it 5-1 units are crazy lol!. The Ambient Weather stuff looks pretty good and very reasonable but I'm sure

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite not so accurate on sunny days

I wouldn't give up on your Acurite so quickly. In its price range, it's actually pretty good. First, make sure your fan is working. Check it during a weekend, or ask a neighbor/wife to check it. Second, make some sort of shade cover for it. Depending on the shape of the sensor, a white yogurt