If you don't mind DIY and ultimate flexibility you could look at WeatherDuino. Emulates the VPs USB connection.
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, 09:00 Thomas Keffer, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hard to beat the Davis Vantage series for reliability. They publish their > API, so the driver is very mature. > > Fine Offset derivatives can also be made to work. The driver has been > reverse engineered, but Matthew has a long history with them and has come > up with a stable, predictable driver. > > Stay clear of the WMR series. We have had to reverse engineer everything, > to uneven results. > > -tk > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 1:09 PM Ray Racine <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Looking for recommendation as to which hardware (Weather Station) to get >> with the following guidelines. >> >> - Fairly recent released model. >> - Hobbiest friendly. SOLID SIMPLE INTEGRATION to the data. e.g. Which >> hardware is best for solid, reliable USB integration to the data? i.e. >> Which Vendor Hardware's Weewx (USB) driver is the most solid and reliable. >> - Home / Personal station for use with "Smart Home" DIY software - which >> is why solid driver integration to directly get the station data is key. >> No cloud, no internet, no scrapping, no DNS redirect tricks, I just want to >> be able to query the hardware (via USB or otherwise) to directly get "my" >> weather data from my weather station. >> - Vendor is supportative, makes available the docs, allowing everyone to >> put together and maintain a solid Weewx driver for directly reading the >> data. >> >> The above is the key criteria - which hardware supports the "best" >> integration capability >> >> Above that would be good value for the price. >> Solar powered station. >> LUX light intensity besides all the usual weather stats. >> >> I'd take a "better" hardware external weather station with regards to >> reliability and accuracy over a fancy a TFT fancy color console. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
