Android tablets can be picked up for < $100 (https://tabletunderbudget.com/best-tablets-under-100-dollars/). With such a tablet running Chrome continuously, and any of a number of WeeWX skins that you could use/customize/modify, you could get what you want.
> On Nov 3, 2020, at 8:50 AM, Dan Bunyard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. -- 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/00B39B21-5436-43A7-90A2-5DA43DF71CBF%40johnkline.com.
