It also has a backlight for early morning/late night viewing. I live in an apartment, and I for now and for the past 3 years have used a $20 indoor outdoor thermometer that Radio Shack sells that was designed for automobiles. Not a concern for users of WIFI and whatnot, but might cause trouble with their garage remote system, but I have heard nothing of this sort yet. Can they use wired or should they go with wireless - most wireless transmits on 433Mhz +/- a bit. Temp only or humdity, wind speed with direction, barometer, UV index, and rain fall? Then look into seeing how their home is setup. Then find our what they want to see on it. My first recogmendation is find out if they are looking to spend $20 or $700. Just a bit of info that I have come up wiht in the past 3 months or so that I have been looking into this type of thing myself.Ĭabela's (Outfitter for hunting and fishing) has a few options from Origon Scientific like a few other users have mentioned, and I have also see the ones by Davis like your link show. You expect weather forecasts to be right? Apparently third party products have reversed engineered the data stream. I'd favor products that have open, published data standards Davis doesn't that I know of.Warrenties given even the sensors get beat up and have to repaired/replaced.Available/tools/programs for logging, saving and making web pages for a station. If I were to start over, I'd look at the now much richer market place like this: The newer wireless sensors are very appealing, since you could mount them away from a house and not face some of the height/access problems you encounter on a roof top. Every location will be different, but can be a pain. As the weather station comes back online, there are a number of windoze products out there that will log and create HTML pages with the data coming out of the WMII.Īn underlying theme is the mounting of the sensors. I've pulled Cat5e to the attic and I'm about ready to deploy a "weather cam" pointed northeast out of an attic window so I can display realtime images. The biggest problem with that is where I mounted it too high for regular access - I have to borrow a ladder. The humidity sensor dies every now and then, but Davis almost always replaces it for free. The last time this happened, two years ago, I put off repairing it ($75) until I remount and properly ground the anemoneter (wind sensor). the biggest problem is the wind sensor gets hit by lightning and it frys the station. The cost was about $500 with various sensors.Įight years later, it's done ok. Back then, there were only a couple of home weather stations on the market.
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