Around where I live, its hard to get accurate weather info. I live many miles away from the closest public weather station. So about a year ago I set up a basic local weather station. I would see my rainfall totals, temperature and other stats were different from what was reported far away. I think having a local weather station helps me better understand what is going on in my neck of the woods.
But this year I upgraded to a better weather station, it has more features. Including a way to log the weather data locally. So I can check at any time the current weather conditions.
Previous to this Tempest Weather System, I had an Ambient weather station and dashboard. I was unable to make use of a logging machine with this. So I had to upgrade to something a little nicer.
Finding a good place to mount it I pick one of my poles I did not end up using for the solar panels. I will probably add a pole mount and get it up higher but this is a good start.
All attached and facing north it should be ready to start broadcasting weather data back to my home.
Should be interesting to see how this holds up, it has an internal battery that recharges by solar. Though I hear in a few years I may need to replace the battery, not the most simple job but thats awhile from now so I will worry about that when it happens.
The weather station pairs with a wifi bridge that then broadcasts the collected data to a virtual machine I have running Home Assistant. This runs on a mini-pc and seems to work okay for now. I may need a better host machine if I collect more metrics. This opens the door to lots of cool IOT devices, but for now it seems to run okay on a little mini PC on a virtual machine.
This app logs all the data and puts it in graphs and such. I could just use their own app on the Play store, but I would rather have my own local server than deal with their app.
The main page we can see all the current stats.. It has lots of sensors, will be interesting to see them through out the seasons.
By clicking on the data points it brings up graphs that shows the data collected over time.
Certain charts such as wind direction will look better with some tweaking soon. So now I just get bearing, but eventually I hope to add more of an indicator to show direction.
Placed by the solar panels, I should have a good idea of the brightness of the sun. My last weather station was a few hundred feet from them. So this new one should hopefully give me some good stats just on the sun alone.
So next I plan on tweaking the dashboard to show the data better. But I am really happy now so be able to look back at temperatures and see how cold it got in the morning. And looking forward to some storms coming through to test that lightning sensor. Will be interesting to get a map function working hopefully to show the data better when strikes happen.
Good evening my brother
The weather station is very useful for you and very beneficial. I can learn more from your post. It's really amazing
Have a nice day my brother
Yep.. it should be. Thanks hope you have a good day too.
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The result of my friend's extraordinary work, making a homemade local weather station to get weather predictions around you is very important, and I can also see in some of the graphs that you show there are some data clues, and hopefully your work can be maximized.
My question is, is this tool resistant to rain and lightning my friend, because I see this tool installed freely without even a cover.
Sure seems like a cool gadget.. yes it is meant to be out in the open. The rain sensor needs water to hit it to read it..
As for a lighting strike.. lol hopefully it does not get struck.. Would probably destroy it.
This is amazing, how accurate is this compared to regular ones...
Seems pretty accurate compared to my previous one.
this is really awesome, you can think of something better to help, accurate weather information. I hope this work goes optimally.👍💪
Yeah it is pretty cool..
Will do an update when I get the dashboard looking more pretty.. maybe when I mount it to a pole.
Ready. will wait and I want to see it☺️
This is a great job! Integrating a weather station with your home system is very smart and offers many benefits. Interesting to see that local weather data can be closely monitored. Hopefully the dashboard and sensors will be further optimized!
That is pretty cool. My dad has a weather station that he maintains. I'm not sure the brand, but I think he paid a bit for it so it's more than just what you might find at the store. I've been using the weatherunderground site and app for a while now because it pulls data from local people with setups like this. It gives you a bit more of an isolated view versus the major radars that NOAA and the TV stations own.
There is a crypto that rewards weather station data 👍
I think if I were you I would do the same!! But probably you still have access to weather apps tracking radars to track storms etc which is also nice. Now you just need to track the amount of rain since you are planting etc I would recommend that ;)
Having healthy and successful weather data can make your job easier. They have been wrong about some of their weather forecasts lately. I think they are making predictions based on data that is far away from me.
Good evening my friend, the station looks very beautiful and very useful for you, I hope you have a pleasant day with beautiful weather and can carry out your activities smoothly ❤️
Que viva hive y los paneles solares ..