As always it comes down to budget and feature set you're looking for, and the time-value of your labor and blood pressure, including how much you want to get into Linux/networking stuff vs. the weather and radio stuff you mentioned...
Given some budget, you can't go wrong with Davis. There's a sale at scientificsales.com with a complete Vue including console and either USB logger or Weatherlink Live at $369 which is a great price. The Vue ISS itself is only $169, but you'd need to connect it to the weewx box somehow. Once you do that you might as well just get the whole station including console and pick the USB logger perhaps. Some other options... If you're ok with gear that requires a little Internet connectivity, you might want to also look at Ecowitt. Their gw1000 gateway is 36 bucks. The WH32 outside temp/hum sensor is 13 bucks and reads so close to my VP2 it's almost unbelievable. The two units read no more than 0.1 F and 1% RH off consistently. Just amazing. They have a rain bucket for $40, and an integrated wind/solar/etc. solar powered sensor suite kinda like a ISS for either $89 (spinning anemometer) or $139 (ultrasonic) and additional sensors are about 20 bucks each. Only downside is you need AA batteries for most things. Integrates trivially with weewx. I'm running mine on a pi3 that also runs a Home Assistant setup, so you need very little compute for weewx. So a full station 'with' solar would be 36 + 13 + 40 + (89 or 139) so you'd match an ISS with solar too for 200-230 or so. Pretty great price. Downside of Ecowitt is the gateway needs a 'little' Internet connectivity for NTP and occasional web queries of Ecowitt's servers in their watchdog timers in the firmware. Folks have already figured out how to fake that on their LAN pretty easily if you have moderate Linux/networking fu so that can be worked around. The cost per sensor is absurdly low so you could build something pretty cool piece by piece with/without a console. Downside of Ecowitt is that their gateway would talk to your network via wifi (2.4 only) so that if your wifi is shaky or your power goes out, you'll not have a Davis-style logger so you'll miss some data. I don't worry that too much here since our power is stable as is my wifi here. Ecowitt certainly has a very low cost of entry to get started, and they have a bit of a ala-carte set of sensors to choose from, so you wouldn't need much investment to experiment and see if it's enough for your needs. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/c7000a7c-b066-481f-8b72-c23718660993n%40googlegroups.com.
