Matthew Do you have a weatherflow driver for weewx??
Andrew On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 20:38:59 UTC+2, mwall wrote: > On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 1:27:14 PM UTC-5, John Russell wrote: >> >> Thanks m, This appears to be exactly what I was looking for. The >> "smartHUB" is the bridge you're referring to, correct? Do you have any >> hand-on experience with their equipment, especially with regards to >> integration with weeWX? I'll do some searches to see what I can find, but >> it's definitely a modular approach and their range of sensors looks to be >> good! >> > > i've been using acurite hardware at 3 different locations since 2013 (i > think the first acurite usb driver was released dec 2013, and i think the > bridge/smarthub driver came out summer of 2014) > > the acurite consoles are horrible wrt comms - there are firmware bugs, > they revert to usb mode 2 (no comms) after power cycle, and we had to do a > lot of hacking to ensure that we could get good data from them. but they > are quite nice from a display point of view - the ticker is lame, but the > rest of the display is better than most low-end weather stations. > > (te923 have the most readable display, imho. but i would avoid all > consoles and just use an android tablet - that way you get not just > easy-to-read, but also information display that beats *any* weather station) > > the bridge performs flawlessly. if you are loath to give away your data, > you can prevent it from sending data to acurite by using your own dns on > your lan. you can run weewx-interceptor in either sniff or listen mode, > depending on your network configuration and skills. > > the sensors seem to be pretty solid - they track pretty closely with those > from other vendors. > > the lightning sensors were pretty flaky in the first batches, but they > seem to be better now. but you'll need an sdr dongle to capture lightning > data (the bridge does not understand output from the lightning sensors). > > i would avoid netatmo - they actively prevent you from getting your own > data unless you go through their servers. > > weatherflow is a much better option if you want to go with a netatmo > equivalent. > > m > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
