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10-28-2017, 05:26 PM #1
Home Weather Stations
Just got the Acurite 5 in 1 weather station for the house.
https://www.acurite.com/pro-color-we...er-sensor.html
Measures winds, rain, temp, wind direction, humidity, barometric pressure. Apparently after 14 days it can start forecasting 12-24hrs out.
Anybody else have one? Any tips?
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10-28-2017, 05:41 PM #2Registered User
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Home Weather Stations
Looks sweet!
I live in a protected area, so I didn’t need the ananometer.
The Skicos report has the winds 4K above me.
I just hooked this up today.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01LW...rb_top?ie=UTF8
I just want to roll over in bed and get the basics.
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10-28-2017, 10:50 PM #3
Nice.
I like having the wind speed and rain gauge. I live on a ridge and the weather apps I use are never accurate for my house.
Because of the anemometer and rain gauge I have it in an open area so I notice the sun causes the temp to be about 5+ degrees higher than in the shade. I have a thermometer in the shade I compare it to.
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10-29-2017, 06:59 AM #4Registered User
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I live in a fairly arid region and wouldn’t need the rain gauge often. I have a glass one in the back yard.
My station can handle up to three sensors. I might get another one someday.
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10-29-2017, 02:00 PM #5
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11-06-2017, 07:45 PM #6Registered User
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two kinds of tech are available I'm told:
The cheap kind and the dig thermom only goes to -21.8F and is fronted as being good.
The spendy kind where the thermom goes colder than -21.8F.
Where I live it regularly gets colder than the limitations of the cheap models. Even the spendy ones are limited by poor tech.
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11-06-2017, 09:17 PM #7
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11-06-2017, 09:30 PM #8
Yea I'm skeptical but will be interesting to see how accurate it is, it's still in learning mode now but it knows when it's going to rain, snow, or be sunny based on pressure and humidity but I wouldn't call it forecasting yet.
I want to connect it to weather underground, already registered it and have a channel ID but I don't have it connected to internet, doesn't have wifi, has to be connected via USB to a connected PC.
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11-07-2017, 12:20 AM #9Banned
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But of the best kind... I'm in need of a home weather station. Preferably an IoT device that can serve me air temp, wind speed, wind direction, hourly precipitation, hourly snowfall and barometric pressure. Oh, waitaminute, my local avalanche center already has one nearby that does all that (and more)...
But, still, I want one... for science. Because... reasons (namely I'm a yuuuge weather nerd and I'd love to apply various machine learning algos to suse out short-to-medium-term forecasts)
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11-07-2017, 12:33 AM #10
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11-11-2017, 06:06 PM #11
I 've had the same one for years now and have had zero issues. I bought the module to connect it to my home wifi network, so its great to check the conditions when I am away and turn up / down the thermostat etc. We moved this summer and I set it up at the new house and its still going strong... just need to figure out how to get it to talk to my sprinkler controllers in the summer.
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11-11-2017, 06:36 PM #12
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11-12-2017, 09:59 PM #13
Don’t have a link but google is your friend.
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11-13-2017, 10:30 AM #14
Hey that Google thing is kinda cool, just type something in there and it searches the entire internet.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T5U1JRE...a-317989815347
Out of stock .
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12-29-2018, 08:40 AM #15Registered User
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I really wanted one a few years ago and was about to drop some money on one.
But then, I realized that a few of my neighbors had them linked up to the Weather Underground network and I could just check their info for free. That's good enough for me.
But they do offer some good advice for buying:
https://www.wunderground.com/weather...n/overview.asp
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12-29-2018, 11:15 AM #16Registered User
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http://www.sandrah.biz/hudsonbaymoun...er/weather.php
we got this one up at the ski kill, really handy it shows a 29cm day today, but i just finished a 16 hr white knuckle drive over nite so... gona miss itLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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12-29-2018, 10:00 PM #17Registered User
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^what's that one using for a snow depth sensor? Is it automated or based on the webcam?
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12-30-2018, 10:08 AM #18Registered User
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I think if you read the site it tells you, I believe it is converting moisture to cms, its usually very accurate
Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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12-30-2018, 01:36 PM #19Registered User
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^my bad, didn't read until the end. You are correct.
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