Does anyone know of a FOSS weather station? I have a Linux based home computer lab and I want to be able to track atmospheric pressure, temperature, and wind specifically. It would be nice to be able to detect rain as well if possible.
So I need both a server to have on linux, PLUS the weather station. Does anyone have any recommendations? I strongly prefer large amounts of open documentation as well.
Thank you!
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https://github.com/vinthewrench/offgrid-weather-station
haven’t actually done it, but this is the best writeup I’ve found. Now it can sit in your pile of projects to get to someday too!
I used wview for years, and published a couple of weather stations publically. Sadly that looks to be abandoned now.
Nowadays I just run Home Assistant and combine an anenometer, a rain tip gauge and about a million different temperature sensors into that, mostly with 8266’s running Esphome to collect and forward that data. It’s a fun and cheap little hobby if you like collecting data. The gauge and anenometer were off aliexpress for about £5 each, the esps about the same, and temp sensors less than a quid each. All software foss of course, and uses almost no resources so can run on any linux server.
Man, Benn Jordan made an awesome video about this!
https://youtu.be/W_F4rEaRduk?t=930I would look at ESP32 boards and make something like this
I personally run an ESP32 with ESPHOME integrated into Home Assistant. So I can also say this is a good way
I’ve recently gotten into ESPHome and am in love. I was in a bit of a rush so got Claude Code to do the YAML for me, but it looks easy to hand write. I’ve make an ePaper dashboard, a control hub with an Guition LCD module I had lying around, and a garage door opener controller, all just in the last couple of weeks
It’s not FOSS solution. However, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N5TEHLI You can easily pick up the data locally using a usb SDR like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMKZCKTF
Works in Home assistant
https://github.com/pbkhrv/rtl_433-hass-addons
Good chance might pick up data from everyone’s station in the immediate area.
What do you mean? FOSS? Open hardware or able to integrate with existing foss like home assistant?
For the latter, I’ve used ecowitt based weather stations myself. they’re very durable, give reliable data and came with a quality manual for not much money.
They come with an app but you can just decide not to use it, all the data is available on the device, hosted as a web server. It has good integrations with HA which is what I use for long term storage together with influxdb.
