Looking for wireless weather station

txdon · Feb 19, 2015

I just saw the solar panels that run the fan - so much for my idea of shading it. I'll let you know about the accuracy.

txdon · Feb 26, 2015

I received my Acurite weather station and set it up. The readings seem to be good but it has not had to go to the extremes since it has not been warmer than 47˚ and the wind has not been over 17mph. I'm still waiting for rain.

I have the color display - model 01512 - and the display is BRIGHT. At night it looks like a TV was left on. I called Acurite and they said to just unplug it and the light will go out but it will continue to monitor with the back up batteries. That will work.

The next issue was the flashing blue lights on the internet bridge. Does anyone know how to stop those lights from flashing - it looks like there is an ambulance in the house?

txdon · Feb 26, 2015

I received my Acurite weather station and set it up. The readings seem to be good but it has not had to go to the extremes since it has not been warmer than 47˚ and the wind has not been over 17mph. I'm still waiting for rain.

I have the color display - model 01512 - and the display is BRIGHT. At night it looks like a TV was left on. I called Acurite and they said to just unplug it and the light will go out but it will continue to monitor with the back up batteries. That will work.

The next issue was the flashing blue lights on the internet bridge. Does anyone know how to stop those lights from flashing - it looks like there is an ambulance in the house?

Industrial Toys · Feb 26, 2015

My beef with all the stations I have looked at is that not one had a wind gust reading, and as far as wind goes that is all that matters because it is the gusts that seem to do the most damage.

Scooby074 · Feb 26, 2015

Industrial Toys said:
My beef with all the stations I have looked at is that not one had a wind gust reading, and as far as wind goes that is all that matters because it is the gusts that seem to do the most damage.

My davis shows gusts when read on my PC. It also updates quite fast so the display usually catches the speed of any gusts if youre looking at it. It will display the 10minute average on the display too, but I agree it would be nice if there was a "10 minute max" as opposed to the daily max that it does.

Industrial Toys · Feb 26, 2015

I would really like to find a weather station, but it seems so difficult. Either they tell you next to nothing or you quickly decend into an IT ****! lol OR having to select the instruments seperate from the electronics.

I have a radio tower site where I would like the instruments. Hard wired into the radio shack. My Internet comes in here, so I wanted some kind of a server at this location and then monitor on my LAN using my computer or a smart phone which I don't yet own. I am not interested in paying any fees beyond the purchase price, and like I said, wind gusts are of major interest to me. That and temperature. And yes, knowing what the max values were in the last day or so would be handy.

Any suggestions or reccomendations would be greatly appreciated.

Cub 7274 · Feb 26, 2015

txdon said:
I received my Acurite weather station and set it up. The readings seem to be good but it has not had to go to the extremes since it has not been warmer than 47˚ and the wind has not been over 17mph. I'm still waiting for rain.

I have the color display - model 01512 - and the display is BRIGHT. At night it looks like a TV was left on. I called Acurite and they said to just unplug it and the light will go out but it will continue to monitor with the back up batteries. That will work.

The next issue was the flashing blue lights on the internet bridge. Does anyone know how to stop those lights from flashing - it looks like there is an ambulance in the house?

My screen will shut off I just touch the little "dot" on the top middle front of the screen on-off

Scooby074 · Feb 26, 2015

Industrial Toys said:
I would really like to find a weather station, but it seems so difficult. Either they tell you next to nothing or you quickly decend into an IT ****! lol OR having to select the instruments seperate from the electronics.

I have a radio tower site where I would like the instruments. Hard wired into the radio shack. My Internet comes in here, so I wanted some kind of a server at this location and then monitor on my LAN using my computer or a smart phone which I don't yet own. I am not interested in paying any fees beyond the purchase price, and like I said, wind gusts are of major interest to me. That and temperature. And yes, knowing what the max values were in the last day or so would be handy.

Any suggestions or reccomendations would be greatly appreciated.

Davis Vantage Pro2 with the internet USB dongle. Then upload to weatherunderground (or create your own website). You can access your weather anywhere there is internet. Either upload via a computer in your shack or you can "hack" a router to function like the Davis WeatherlinkIP if you dont have a PC in the shack or want to leave it on 24/7. The weather forums have details on the router hack, Im not up to speed on it, I use WeatherlinkUSB and Cumulius software on a PC to upload mine.

Industrial Toys · Feb 26, 2015

Thanks, I will look into it. Man, seems you need to be some kind of IT wizzard, and frankly I just don't have much patience with that stuff. One problem leads to another that leads to another and another!Rather just go play in the dirt!

We have one internet connection coming in on the tower, it goes over to my neighbour via an Engenious link, then back to my house, because I can't see my own tower. That system has given us both grey hair. Now I have run coax the 500' from tower to my house with media converters, and that is working for me but not him. Really crappy throughput and we (more him then I) simply can't figure out the problem. So, anyway, what I am trying to say is I am a little leary about getting into something that is just too complex.