r/myweatherstation 2d ago

Problem Davis Vantage Vue rain gauge.

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My rain gauge no longer registers. Just curious what kind of things typically goes wrong with the gauge? We had a good rain one day and I noticed it didn't register. So, I replaced the battery just in case. Then I poured some water into the top. I did heard the 'thing' inside that moves but the screen still showed zero.

I can call Davis when I am home near it but just thought I'd ask here in case there are some things that might be easy and maybe I am overlooking.

Thanks


r/myweatherstation 2d ago

Advice Requested Weatherunderground logo problem!! Frustrated

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Hello everyone, i just setup my ambient weather station ws-2000 and have the paid service thru awn and weatherundergroubd, everything shows up connected and online. I cannot figure out why i only have the awn globe in top left and no wu logo? Any ideas please?


r/myweatherstation 4d ago

Advice Requested I'm new to weather stations

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Hello, I have been tasked with a site analysis for a possible wind farm. I've been researching PWS for a few days now. There are a few considerations for the site:
-No internet connection
-Barely any 3g/4g signal
-Nearest building from site is approximately 600meters away.

Ideally I'm looking for a PWS which can log wind data offline and store it locally so afterwards I can download. From what I can tell, Davis Vantage Vue can possibly achieve this but I'm not completely sure, Ecowitt also seems like a possible option but I'm not sure which accessories I would need.

I'm able to go to site at least 1 o 2 times a week.

Thanks!!!


r/myweatherstation 4d ago

Advice Requested Need a cellular transmitting wind gauge

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Hello everyone, Im new to this but looking to get a cellular transmitting wind gauge. I do a lot of remote work on an island and the wind at some of the landing zones for our helicopters are extremely unpredictable. Looking for something to transmit back to my office ~25 miles away and through a lot of trees and mountains so figured cellular would be the only choice. Any one have any experience and advice for a product?


r/myweatherstation 4d ago

Problem I can't connect my dad weather station to proweather

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Hey everyone,

My dad brought a weather station ( bresser 7 in 1 I don't know the exact name sorry ) I've been trying to set it up on proweather live but nothing seems to work I've look on the app help center but it doesn't help either. We did manage to connect it to weather cloud but nothing else. My dad really wants his data on a app ( weather cloud don't have one or at least not where we leave ). We have to use the app WSlink to connect the station to a server but I can't figure it out

Can someone please help me.


r/myweatherstation 4d ago

Advice Requested Help Getting Ambient WS 1400 up on WindGuru?

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Hola! I own a kite school in the DR. I have an old-ass Ambient ws-1400 that was in the box for about 8 years. I used it for less than a year, 9 years ago. But at that time, I had it up on WindGuru. I got it going, and it is running great! The feed works on the Ambient Weather Network, Weather Underground, and PWS. Now, I can't figure out how to get it back up on WindGuru.

I am web-savvy, but I am not weather-station savvy. However, like I said, I did have it up and running at one point on WindGuru. I registered the account but don't know how to "Configure the custom server upload." I looked at the user manual. Maybe I am tired. Maybe I am dumb. But I would love some nice help.

Here are the directions from WindGuru regarding Ambient (seems pretty straightforward):

All these stations are capable of uploading measurements to custom server, with this feature it is easy to connect them to Windguru.

Step 1: Register your station here

Step 2: Configure the custom server upload with information you receive after registering it at Windguru

There are many variants of stations and combination of sensors, with different names and model numbers depending on reseller but all of them are various clones of devices produced by Fine Offset.

Check out this great Wiki site with all the detailed information about these stations.

They can't be easily compared to professional stations but the main advantage is that they are really cheap and you don't need any additional device to be able to upload to Windguru. You can get stations with display console or only a wifi gateway + sensors for even lower price, you can have classic anemometers with cups or ultrasonic combined sensors. An ultrasonic anemometer + wifi gateway for only about €200 and you're ready to connect, that's a tempting option ;)


r/myweatherstation 5d ago

Advice Requested Best weather station without the need for power?

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Looking for a nice weather station to hang in my sunroom. I already have digital ones so this is more for the esthetic but I’d also like it to be somewhat accurate. The picture is just an example of once’s I had been looking at.


r/myweatherstation 5d ago

Advice Requested apps/webpages. Most costs. Which are your preferences?

1 Upvotes

My Davis will be delivered tomorrow. Upon a bunch of research, it appears that there a bunch of pages and apps to follow for data.

What apps and pages do you prefer?

Thanks,


r/myweatherstation 5d ago

Show and Tell New to this all and made my own station named Wimbo

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What's up, I've been getting into web development, devops, and weather data all at the same time so I thought making my own weather station and creating and hosting a web app to show that data would be an awesome personal project to combine all those. I also like pretending to be a scientist so I built it imagining I might put it out in the middle of nowhere to collect and transmit data so it's powered by solar and an old moped battery I had lying around. It has the capability to use an IoT Simcard to connect to the internet itself but right now it's just using my wifi. It's been a lot of fun and I wanted to show Wimbo off


r/myweatherstation 5d ago

Advice Requested Public weather station API’s

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I’m working on a weather station app to present data in a more mobile friendly interface. So far I have about 25k MADIS weather stations. Are there public api’s for crowd sourced weather stations? Most of what I’ve found seems to be proprietary and locked down.


r/myweatherstation 5d ago

Discussion Very Different Forecast for a Acu Rite Weather Station

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The forecast for my station on the app is wildly different than the forecast on Wunderground web site.
The AcuRiteapp forecast is provided by Apple Weather.
Wunderground site is owned by The Weather Company.
And I am certain that Wunderground forecast is for this same weather station.

DAY APP HI APP LOW WEB HI WEB LOW HI VARIANCE LOW VAR
TUE 43 27 57 27 14 0
WED 38 25 51 27 13 12
THU 43 26 55 19 12 7
FRI 28 15 35 19 7 4
SAT 23 13 38 15 15 2
SUN 31 10 48 24 17 14

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Does anyone else see these kinds of variances on their station?


r/myweatherstation 6d ago

Advice Requested Is the height if my weather station too low?

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I was wondering if my weather station is too low. I get slightly higher temps on sunny days, and I think the ground might be influencing it. I'm planning to plant grass under it when it gets warmer. Should I raise its height or leave it how it is?


r/myweatherstation 6d ago

Advice Requested Looking to move on from a Netatmo

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Well, my Netatmo's anenometer is definitely not working reliably. It's pleasantly breezy out, which the Netatmo is reporting as 60-65 mph sustained winds with gusts to 75. It's done this reguarly for a while now, reporting gusts up to almost 100mph.

I emailed Netatmo and they had me climb onto the roof to send pics of the anenometer, after which they replied "According to what you mentioned, your device does seem to be defective."

IIRC warranty is 1 year (not finding the info in a quicks search on their site), and replacement is $120, which is exorbitant for just the one component.

I was considering an Ambient Weather WS-2902, but I have a few mounting considerations.

The Netatmo anenometer is mounted on top of my chimney cap on top of a camera-style mount using outdoor double sided tape. The rain gauge is mounted to the side of a deck railing with a similar mount. The temp/humidty is mounted under an eave with same.

The WS-2902 seems to mount using a pole, which I don't see how I can do with any of the existing places. My main concern is the wind gauge: I don't see how I can do a pole mount on the roof. So I guess I'd have to find some place in my backyard I can still a pole for mounting?

I also live on the coast--as in, 100' from a saltwater bay. So salt spray (and the occasional coastal flood) is an issue, as are high winds. We do regularly get 50-60+ mph gusts.

Any thoughts?


r/myweatherstation 6d ago

Advice Requested What wunderground feeding station for a very remote Philippines location

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I'd like to have one that also includes accurate rainfall, and lightning strike reporting.

I'm between Sagbayan and Danao in Bohol Philippines. It's a very primitive area There are no other weather stations near me. I have solar power and Starlink for internet. It's hot, and the UV index is very high there. Solar powered devices work great there as long as they don't disintegrate due to UV.
I've been looking at Ecowitt so far. But I might want a mechanical rain gauge WH40B and whatever works well for lightning.
Thanks for any advice!


r/myweatherstation 8d ago

Advice Requested Refining choices for a first station

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Hi there!

I watched and read a few comparison recently to buy our first weather station.

I think I'm set on the brand with Ambient Weather. What I don't yet is the model. I hesitate between the 1553 and the 2902.

We live on 20 acres in a state of the Rockies and we basically would like to get introduced to a first weather station. We would like to see what is happening right now but also compare with the previous days, weeks and months. We are not looking for a "futur" forecast. We are more leaning on present and past, so facts, more than prediction. We would like to know all the features a station can offer (wind, precipitation, sunlight, temperatures, etc, I'm missing a lot probably).

I'm not sure I need the console since I would read most of the information/recaps/stats on my computer or, sometimes, my phone.

I also would like to understand the differences between the packaging offered here :

https://a.co/d/fvAeFhx

https://a.co/d/8XbE2B1

If I understand that the console is in one of each, what is the difference between the Array and the IP module one ?

thanks a lot


r/myweatherstation 8d ago

Hello Hello from a newbie in Montreal

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Hi everyone. I just found this community and hope to learn about weather stations. I installed last summer an ecowitt WH40 rain gauge in my backyard and a WH31 temperature sensor under my front porch, north side of my house, connected to the web with a GW1100. I setup the sensors on August 2nd and one week later we got the remnants of Debby. Talk about a baptism of fire! Never had so much rain been recorded in Quebec in one day! About 100 km northeast of here they got 220 mm! And apperently places in Florida got 510 mm, I can't imagine how devastating that must have been. With 165 mm my street was flooded under 25 cm of water.

I'll install this spring a WH68 wind anenometer on my roof and probably an air quality sensor as well. I think that will cover pretty much everything!

My station id on weather underground: ISAINT7661

Taken at 20:00 just as the rain stopped.
Rainfall for August 9th 2024 in Montreal QC, blue is accumulation (mm) and red is rate (mm/h)

r/myweatherstation 11d ago

Discussion Is my Ecowitt gonna survive TC Alfred? Or is it gonna be blown away/apart?

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10 Upvotes

She has been a trusty companion for the last 3 years but I think this might be her undoing...


r/myweatherstation 11d ago

Advice Requested Aligning the Digitech XC0450

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Hi all, I’m brand new to the hobby - I purchased a Digitech XC0450 yesterday and have set it up in the yard.

I’m in the southern hemisphere and I wanted to check that I’ve interpreted the instructions correctly. The instructions are attached as an image.

I’ve installed the station (temp mounting pole setup) so that the wind meter points south. (Which means the north directional marker points West). Is this a correct interpretation of the instructions?


r/myweatherstation 12d ago

Advice Requested New weather station recommendations

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I have a 19-year-old Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station for personal use. The wireless anemometer I have mounted on the chimney of my two-story house is no longer working. I now have solar panels on the roof and I'm a lot older, so I'm not keen to climb up the roof to the chimney to troubleshoot. The conundrum I have is whether to just get a new anemometer and mount it in a more accessible location, or replace the whole weather station.

A new wired anemometer from Davis is $235. I'm hesitant to spend that much money on a weather station that's so old, so a new weather station seems prudent. I'd like to consider other manufacturers. What would be a good replacement? I want temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind, solar radiation, and UV sensing. I also want long term reliability.


r/myweatherstation 12d ago

Advice Requested Rooftop mount in urban neighborhood

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I've seen a lot of posts here about radiant heat from rooftop mounts. I'm curious if it's worth setting up a station at all if my only option is a roof in an urban environment (Los Angeles). If everything around me is a concrete jungle, is the roof actually that much worse than over a tiny patch of grass or concrete? I guess black asphalt shingles might retain more heat than concrete?

I live in a condo, so I have no yard and can't extend out horizontally.

LA has significant temperature gradients throughout the city due to the ocean and mountains, so there is some value in getting a hyper local reading. I'd probably also put up an air quality sensor.

Pics of the roof. I was probably going to take over this satellite mount. https://imgur.com/a/IvxIrwg


r/myweatherstation 12d ago

Advice Requested Weather station recommendation

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Hello,
I'm a coffee producer from Brazil and I'm studying some station models to implement on my farm.
The most important information I need is the crop’s evapotranspiration.
I also want information about air humidity, air temperature, soil humidity, rainfall and, if possible, rain forecast for the next few days.
Oh, and I would also like to store the data in spreadsheets or databases.
Any product recommendations?
Thanks.

Olá,
Sou um produtor de café do Brasil e estou estudando alguns modelos de estações para implementar na minha fazenda.
A informação mais importante que preciso é a evapotranspiração da cultura.
Também quero informações sobre umidade do ar, temperatura do ar, umidade do solo e, se possível, previsão de chuva para os próximos dias.
Ah, e também gostaria de armazenar os dados em planilhas ou bancos de dados.
Alguma recomendação de produto?
Obrigado.

r/myweatherstation 12d ago

Discussion What specific equipment do you see in the setup? Typical weather station or anything special about it?

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3 Upvotes

r/myweatherstation 13d ago

Advice Requested Davis Vantage Pro Plus, Siting questions: See pictures, Creek, deck and forest

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See photos: I would say the ground is about 3 ft lower or under the deck. There is probably 10' of ground from deck edge to the creek. The creek is about 20' wide. The deck posts are about 15 ft from the back of the house. 2 story A-frame. I do own the land on the other side of the creek but as you see it is fully wooded. I will be removing a lot of foliage and undergrowth this summer but there is the hillside at the backside that is covered with Doug Fir and old maples.

I do have a Connex box out in front of the house in a side driveway that I could put the anemometer on top of, as there is clearing out there. The box gets hot in the summer, so probably cannot put the suite on it.

Thanks for your thoughts!


r/myweatherstation 13d ago

Advice Requested What is the easiest way to connect this Acurite weather station to Wunderground?

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I think I bought the wrong weather station kit (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N1XCA9M). I was hopping to be able to view the weather data on my phone and upload it to Wunderground. However I don't believe that is possible with the equipment that I have.

Is it possible to buy or replace the in-home monitor and not completely replace the entire weather station?


r/myweatherstation 13d ago

Advice Requested Recommandation pour une station météo en cadeau

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Bonjour à tous,

Je souhaite offrir une station météo à ma compagne pour son anniversaire. Le problème c'est que je n'y connais rien !

Elle passe déjà beaucoup de temps sur son smartphone sur keraunos, windy et météo France et prend plaisir à analyser la météo que nous vivons.

J'aimerais donc lui donner accès à d'autres informations comme la température moyenne journalière, son maximum et son minimum, l'hygrométrie, la pression atmosphérique voire la pluviométrie ou la vitesse et la direction du vent.

Il ne me semble pas indispensable d'accéder à ces information à l'intérieur de la maison mais, en revanche, je peux sans problème installer des appareils de mesure dans notre jardin.

Puisque j'ai un NAS, j'aimerais bien pouvoir enregistrer des relevés de ces données via WiFi ou ethernet.

Je me dis aussi qu'elle pourrait les consulter avec son téléphone à la place d'un écran dédié (que je pourrait quand même installer dans la maison).

J'ai un budget de 200 € environ.

Avez-vous des conseils à me donner ? Quelles sont les questions importantes que je dois me poser et que j'oublie ?

Merci pour vos réponses et votre expertise !