Open source, self hosted weather stations? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by pinballwizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Does anyone know of a FOSS weather station? I have a Linux based home computer lab and I want to be able to track atmospheric pressure, temperature, and wind specifically. It would be nice to be able to detect rain as well if possible.

So I need both a server to have on linux, PLUS the weather station. Does anyone have any recommendations? I strongly prefer large amounts of open documentation as well.

Thank you!

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[-] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

https://github.com/vinthewrench/offgrid-weather-station

haven't actually done it, but this is the best writeup I've found. Now it can sit in your pile of projects to get to someday too!

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

I would look at ESP32 boards and make something like this

[-] JelleWho@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

I personally run an ESP32 with ESPHOME integrated into Home Assistant. So I can also say this is a good way

[-] petey@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve recently gotten into ESPHome and am in love. I was in a bit of a rush so got Claude Code to do the YAML for me, but it looks easy to hand write. I’ve make an ePaper dashboard, a control hub with an Guition LCD module I had lying around, and a garage door opener controller, all just in the last couple of weeks

[-] digdilem@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I used wview for years, and published a couple of weather stations publically. Sadly that looks to be abandoned now.

Nowadays I just run Home Assistant and combine an anenometer, a rain tip gauge and about a million different temperature sensors into that, mostly with 8266's running Esphome to collect and forward that data. It's a fun and cheap little hobby if you like collecting data. The gauge and anenometer were off aliexpress for about £5 each, the esps about the same, and temp sensors less than a quid each. All software foss of course, and uses almost no resources so can run on any linux server.

[-] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Man, Benn Jordan made an awesome video about this!
https://youtu.be/W_F4rEaRduk?t=930

[-] adeoxymus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

What do you mean? FOSS? Open hardware or able to integrate with existing foss like home assistant?

For the latter, I’ve used ecowitt based weather stations myself. they’re very durable, give reliable data and came with a quality manual for not much money.

They come with an app but you can just decide not to use it, all the data is available on the device, hosted as a web server. It has good integrations with HA which is what I use for long term storage together with influxdb.

[-] zelifcam@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It’s not FOSS solution. However, this is a completely off line setup. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N5TEHLI You can easily pick up the data locally using a usb SDR like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMKZCKTF

Works in Home assistant

https://github.com/pbkhrv/rtl_433-hass-addons

Good chance might pick up data from everyone’s station in the immediate area.