Hi All,
I'm a newbie looking for hardware suggestions and I don't seem to be
finding exactly what I want. But that's probably because I'm a newbie!
I've done some searching and found some questions that are frequently asked
newbies such as myself:
- do you want an integrated sensor cluster, or separate rain, wind, and
temperature/humidity sensors?
- Separate would be ideal. I would like at least 4 temp sensors
(exterior, garage, upstairs/downstairs) and later a rain sensor. Others
are not so interesting to me now, but who knows!
- do you require a physical console to display the data?
- No, if there's an option to add one, I *might*, but definitely not
at first.
- is there power available where the sensors will be located? where the
console/basestation will be located? what kind of power?
- I could get PoE power to any exterior sensor, the others need to be
on battery power. My initial Google searches are not coming up with many
PoE thermometers, and I have no idea if they are compatible with weeWX
(which is why I'm here).
- is a hardware data logger required? preferred?
- Not required, not preferred.
- is there a preferred communication mechanism, e.g., wifi, bluetooth,
wired (serial, usb, tcp/ip)?
- WiFi or ethernet (if a PoE is sensor is available)
- how much tinkering do you want to do for installation/configuration?
- Some, I'm seasoned with Linux (Ubuntu mostly) but am not a
sysadmin...
- how much tinkering are you willing to do for maintenance/operation?
- Very little, once it's working it should stay working.
- is remote access a requirement or a nice-to-have?
- Not a requirement.
- where do you want the data to end up?
- Doesn't need to leave my weeWX instance, I see a lot of people send
data to wunderground, but I'm in a populated area, I'm sure there's
already
50 data points within 5 miles of me (hell I live 4 miles from a major
airport).
It seems that Oregon Scientific's LW301 fits a lot of my requirements, but
Amazon's reviews are pretty atrocious. I also didn't know if weeWX needs
their servers to be up. It seems it does if packet sniffing is the method
of data retrieval. I assume if the external server is not up then there's
no packet to sniff! Then I looked at Netatmo, seems neat, but limited to
only 2 thermometers? And it's kinda pricey.
Thanks for any help!
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