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Can anyone suggest a good weather instrument set for home use?

Something i can use with a pi or arduino?

Davis Instruments makes some of the best and most accurate devices. I have the Vantage Pro2 sensor suite and recommend it. More expensive than some but worth it. There are various ways to upload data to the internet.

I have an AccuRite weather station, it has an indoor and outdoor component. The indoor display is connected via USB to a Pi running WeeWX under Raspbian. It works well, I would recommend it.

I bought an Acurite Iris for $90 and a $25 SDR dongle for the RPI (no indoor hub necessary). You don’t even need WeeWx if you just want to pump messages to MQTT… this can be done with rtl-433.

Was up and running in 15 minutes with this guide:

https://github.com/bdwilson/acurite

Agreed. My AcuRite/RPi/Weewx combo has been running solid since Dec 2014, with zero issues.

If and when it does die, I'll switch to a Davis and whatever newest RPi is available.

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