On Monday, November 2, 2020 at 3:40:25 PM UTC-8, Dan Bunyard wrote: > > I could really do whatever for hardware - consider this a blank slate. The > only real boxes I need to tick are outside temp/humidity and a large screen > the wife can view from ~20ft away. However, if rolling something myself is > going to be just as expensive as getting another AcuRite 02064 then I'll > just do that and be done with it. > >
The display she can read from 20' is the hard and expensive part. For that I'd suggest node-red or HomeAssistant which let you build just about any display look'n'feel you can dream up. But the hardware is the costly part.... If you have a raspi handy, you could build something like this for about 90 bucks * screen = https://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-Pi-Official-Touch-Screen/dp/B073S3LQ6Q * case = https://www.amazon.com/SmartiPi-Touch-Official-Raspberry-Touchscreen/dp/B07WXK38YM You still need the sensors part, likely wireless and battery powered since they're outdoors someplace. There's a lot of talk about EcoWitt these days and an evolving weewx driver for that gear. Their sensors are super-inexpensive, about $12 for the temperature/humidity one, and their wifi gateway is $35. Hook weewx reading that stuff up and publishing to MQTT via the MQTT extension, and you could definitely have something that a roll-your-own dashboard like node-red or HomeAssistant or even grafana could display on the pi. So that gets you to $90 plus pi for the inside, and $50 or so for the outside, plus the time-value of your labor to connect them up software-wise. If you don't have a pi, add $40 os so. So your total is in the $140-175 ballpark to do a whatever-you-want display that would look very nice. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/fbe8152d-6509-4331-8ba7-af2cdcaa622eo%40googlegroups.com.
