For a few years now, I’ve had a cobbled together weather station using Ecowitt
sensors that one can readily buy on Amazon, and the fantastic open source tool
WeeWx. I really don’t think I can sign the praises of WeeWx loudly enough.
The components of the setup:
- Ecowitt GW3000 “gateway”
- Ecowitt XXXX temperature sensor
- Ecowitt rain guage
- Ecowitt anemometer
- FreeBSD jail (or any unix-like 24-7 server, an RPi would be fine here)
Ecowitt is better know in the agricultural community for making very expensive, very high performing sensors for farms. But thankfully they’ve dipped their toes in the commercial waters and provided a highly cost-effective way to build a home weather station cluster, without dropping hundreds of dollars on a Davis instrument (and then being locked into their ecosystem).
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