I have searched around a little, and even though I have grown fond of aliexpress, I found it cheaper directly at EciWitts own homepage.
So I have ordered a EcoWitt Wittboy (WS90 and GW3000) as a kit in which they throw in a bird spikes unit as well. I have also ordered a soil moisture unit in the hope I can find out a way to show that on my page as well. It will arrive in 10 to 25 days, so I will just sit back and wait patiently. Thanks for the advices, I hope this is better than the netatmo. If it turns out to be good, I will probably add in a ligntning detector and a air quality sensor. I think that now that it is possible to get realtime (at least more realtime than netatmo) I will find a more interesting skin with realtime gauges and stuff. :-) In regards to the rain meassure, I haven't had the netatmo to show correct rain fall at any time anyways. But that has to do with the driver for weewx. If it is a little bit of, it is ok, I have been used to that allready. :-) I might need help when it arrives, but I'll reach out then. :-) Cheers Bent onsdag den 10. september 2025 kl. 17.16.53 UTC+2 skrev steepleian: > I am in total agreement here with Michael. The combination of the > traditional tipping gauge and piezo sensor is perfect as far as I am > concerned. Piezo is far more accurate at determining the start of rain but > the interesting thing I observe time and time again is that they end up in > much the same position after a period of time. So my advice is start with > the Whitboy, it is much improved in performance these days. You can always > add a tipping gauge afterwards. > https://claydonsweather.org.uk > > On 10 Sep 2025, at 16:03, '[email protected]' via weewx-user < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I use the WH40 and WS90 rain gauge combined: the ws90 detects light rain > long before the first signal of the tipping gauge. That's valuable > information for me. Valuable enough for recording and displaying it. > > > > vince schrieb am Mittwoch, 10. September 2025 um 16:54:05 UTC+2: > >> I would suggest not buying a Ecowitt piezo sensor. Even ecowitt’s >> manuals say to use their tipping rain gauge if you want better accuracy. I >> purchased a ws85 that was hopelessly bad at rain accuracy that I took it >> down and boxed it back up. I was not able to tune its settings to get even >> close to accurate readings. >> >> (If anybody in the US wants to buy it for the cost of shipping plus 40 >> bucks contact me via email) >> >> On Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 6:23:14 AM UTC-7 [email protected] >> wrote: >> >>> I'd go for the GW3000/WS90 combo: >>> https://shop.ecowitt.com/de/products/ecowitt-gw3001 >>> >>> [email protected] schrieb am Mittwoch, 10. September 2025 um 14:23:47 >>> UTC+2: >>> >>>> I forgot to paste the link. Sorry about that. >>>> >>>> https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005276861462.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.3.62dd7809CmFaML&algo_pvid=37cf5052-a9f2-416e-8ec4-d1ed80fe5f13&algo_exp_id=37cf5052-a9f2-416e-8ec4-d1ed80fe5f13-2&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22order%22%3A%22185%22%2C%22eval%22%3A%221%22%7D&pdp_npi=6%40dis%21USD%21487.46%21268.10%21%21%213454.73%211900.10%21%40211b6c1717575029468506303e3a61%2112000036202949500%21sea%21DK%212071146943%21X%211%210%21n_tag%3A-29919%3Bd%3A6669c22d%3Bm03_new_user%3A-29895&curPageLogUid=MRbbS6GcnRbm&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch%7Cquery_from%3A%7Cx_object_id%3A1005005276861462%7C_p_origin_prod%3A >>>> onsdag den 10. september 2025 kl. 13.55.58 UTC+2 skrev >>>> [email protected]: >>>> >>>>> You can combine almost endless combinations of sensors and gateways >>>>> from ecowitt. And even more when using weewx with those devices. A >>>>> classic >>>>> tipping rain gauge can even be used in parallel with the piezo rain gauge >>>>> from WS90/WS85 with a single gateway/console. >>>>> >>>>> [email protected] schrieb am Mittwoch, 10. September 2025 um 13:35:27 >>>>> UTC+2: >>>>> >>>>>> Is this the one you had in mind? >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers >>>>>> Bent >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> onsdag den 10. september 2025 kl. 05.23.51 UTC+2 skrev Graham Eddy: >>>>>> >>>>>>> consider ecowitt. weewx acquires data directly from controller >>>>>>> (bypass cloud) but controller is on ether/wifi not usb/serial >>>>>>> *⊣GE⊢* >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 10 Sep 2025, at 4:43 am, '[email protected]' via weewx-user < >>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I´m tired of my data not really being my data. I have to get it from >>>>>>> their servers, and that they don´t work all the time. >>>>>>> I´m tired of allway restarting and getting a new refresh token from >>>>>>> their api page, because it can´t get data after a restart of the server. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I´m so glad of weewx though, and I want to keep having a weather >>>>>>> station, but I will not use oceans of money. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> But which new stations should be considered. I really liked the >>>>>>> netatmo approach on the wind gauge, which is without moving parts but >>>>>>> with >>>>>>> ultrasound. >>>>>>> Does any other stations use this approach? I know some professionals >>>>>>> do, but they are far beond my financial reach. :-) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> And which stations have serial or USB output that can be used in >>>>>>> weewx. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- > > 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 visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/26ca89d5-af54-4647-9506-1a53bd092a7bn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/26ca89d5-af54-4647-9506-1a53bd092a7bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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]. 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