Hi Gregory, I gave an almost 20 year old Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station that has been very reliable. The only problem now is that the little solar panel doesn't charge very well, and I have to replace the battery more often. I have the indoor wireless console that also still works well. To connect to my iMac and WeeWX, I have a wireless Davis Weather Envoy that also picks up the Vantage Pro2 signal, and feeds the data locally to my iMac via a Serial/USB connection. All this works perfectly with WeeWX.
Sean On Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at 10:26:07 AM UTC-7 Gregory wrote: > Hello, > > This is sort of a "what weather station should I buy" question, but I > think it's appropriate to ask here because I'm planning my setup around > WeeWX and there are some considerations relevant to that. > > I'm planning to set up WeeWX in a Docker container on a server in my home. > I haven't yet decided on weather station hardware, in part because I'm > unsure about how that choice will affect connecting to and interoperability > with WeeWX. I want to connect the sensors to WeeWX within my home network, > i.e. I do not want to upload data from the weather station to a cloud > service and then download the data from the cloud to WeeWX. > > I had been intending to purchase a Davis Vantage Pro 2, but it appears > that I would have to use Davis's Weatherlink cloud service to get the data > into WeeWX. If I'm mistaken about this, could someone please correct me and > tell me how I would make the connection (something needs to connect to my > router, whether via WiFi or ethernet cable). If it isn't possible to > connect a Vantage Pro directly to my home network, then could you recommend > a different manufacturer? My priorities for the weather station are: > > > 1. Connects directly to WeeWX (no internet link). > 2. Sensor accuracy and reliability (serviceable hardware is great). > 3. Able to add additional sensors (mostly temp, but also soil > moisture, etc.) in different locations. > > My budget is $1,000 and I'd like to stay well under that if possible, but > the priorities above are more important than keeping cost to an absolute > minimum. It would be nice to have an attractive console with the system, > but that's not a high priority because I'm thinking I could just use a web > browser on an old iPad to view a page served by WeeWX. > > Thanks in advance! > Gregory > > -- 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/f987b821-6aca-4c34-96fa-f2e683e80686n%40googlegroups.com.
