Yeah that's what I keep seeing. I already have HomeAssistant and Node-RED up and running but it's a virtual machine in my basement. I keep coming back to the screen being the costly bit which is why I may just get another Acurite and call it a day. It's been serving me well for ~4 years now but it finally kicked the bucket. I've been piping the data into Home Assistant with WeeWX for a while (probably 2 years).
I do like the idea of the EcoWitt, that sounds like a cost-effective option. Maybe I'll see if I have an extra Android tablet lying around or pick up an Amazon fire one and root it. I can probably 3d print a small holder for it so that I can sit it in the same place I have the Acurite screen now. Thanks for all the ideas, definitely have the gears turning! On Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 10:25:51 AM UTC-5 vince wrote: > 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/6a263804-d34b-4f8d-b4af-e1500cd19e03n%40googlegroups.com.
