On Thursday, August 29, 2019 at 7:27:18 AM UTC-7, Xant wrote:

> If I'm not mistaken, AmbientWeather w ObserverIP data cycles every 
> 16seconds, while WeatherFlow every 60secs. Sure, it is a major (and long 
> cycle, specially when compared with Davis).
>
>
You probably want to surf the WeatherFlow forums, but they measure every 60 
secs, with 'rapid_wind' every 3 secs if you enable that.

Couple things to be aware of:

   - it doesn't work standalone without constant Internet connectivity, as 
   the vendor pushes tuning to each sensor individually
   - the rain in particular is not accurate at all for most people, they 
   currently have a next-day "rain check" thing that alters your daily total 
   for the previous day based on some analysis of surrounding data.   So your 
   weewx data on your server will not reflect reality for many kinds of rain 
   (misty or very heavy usually, but there doesn't seem to be a consistent 
   pattern in what folks have reported)

So:

   - if you want a unit that is accurate out of the box 'without' the need 
   for Internet connectivity, you want to pick another vendor.
   - if you need accurate rain in your weewx db, you probably want to pick 
   another vendor at this time.


But it works nicely with weewx and it's kinda fun using their UDP API to 
listen to the data and explore other ways to save it and report it.  I 
wrote a UDP listener (on github) and save my data to influxdb and display 
with grafana, mainly as a learning exercise.  I also run weewx on a pi for 
more usual weewx kinds of things, although once again I have to mention 
that the rain data is raw data, not tweaked-after-the-fact data for rain.

So for me, it's been a lot of fun for a year+ on the programming side since 
I got mine, but 'today' if I had no station and was going to do it again, 
I'd go Davis Vue and just spend the extra $100 difference for out of the 
box just-plain-works.



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