For Davis specifically, there are a variety of options and prices. Davis sensors are absurdly expensive too.
The main problem is there is no way to get data off the new tablet-looking Davis console so it's a non-starter for LAN-only so you need to either use the old consoles which are getting harder to find these days, or cobble together something custom to work around that limitation. Cheapest way I can think of is: - buy the VP2 ISS sensor suite standalone ($500) - add a RTL-SDR dongle and antenna ($50) and run the rtl-davis weewx driver - run the excellent Belchertown weewx skin for a nice dashboard - and use free FullyKioskBrowser on a cheapo Kindle Fire ($40 - $100 depending on size) That'll get you all the outside readings. If you want inside temperature and pressure you'd need to cobble together a BME280 breadboard thing, which is easy to do if you want to play developer for a bit. Cost there would be under $20 plus the price of an old raspi to connect it to. Many ways to get there. (I'll ignore the very inexpensive Ecowitt gear because its gateway 'does' need internet connectivity, but their T+H sensors are excellent. I have those plus their soil moisture and soil temp sensors too. Gary's gw1000 driver for the ecowitt gateways works great. I've run that in docker and vagrant/Parallels and vagrant/VirtualBox for a long time and it is very stable.) There are a zillion other ways to get there for Davis all centered around finding the old ugly LCD-looking Davis console - find an old ugly LCD-looking Davis console, even a used one, and add the ridiculously expensive ($195) Davis 6510USB datalogger to it (or 6510SER plus serial2usb dongle), connected to your weewx host. Just hide the ugly console someplace if you don't want to look at it. This adds excellent datalogging capability and it's super power-loss safe. Nice thing about the ancient Davis console is it can handle 'long' power outages, and the datalogger holds a week+ of records just in case. - there are a lot of third-party dataloggers as well, but given your price point just go Davis and pay da'man. It works. Re: the ancient consoles, the Davis 6351 Vue console ($260 or so) 'should' work a VP2 sensor suite but you'd need to verify that. The VP2 console is getting a little hard to find. I'm sure you'll get a lot of answers from other folks with creative solutions. Really comes down to how many pieces of the puzzle are too many and whether you're ok with doing a little development of a custom solution that works for you. For vendors, ScaledInstruments and ScientificSales are both great, and both guys answer questions. They used to play off each other a little for prices but not so much these days, so check both sites out to get an idea of prices. 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/22c7f62a-ebe1-4870-a084-bd2f615121e1n%40googlegroups.com.
