Hacker News Reader

Comment by Terretta | Hacker News Reader

Since OP mentioned not wanting to DIY, if people are looking for weather system with incredibly rich API and no moving parts (no Raspberry PIs either), this system is fantastic for people without workshop build time:

https://weatherflow.com/tempest-weather-system/

View on HN

To clarify, the OP said: "I have neither time nor workshop space to solder and assemble anything more trivial than "plug a sensor into an ESP32 and screw both into a box"."

The book is very much "plug in a sensor" style as everything is connected via Qwiic cables.

That looks like it doesn't have any local-first functionality? Their API documentation only talks about how to retrieve data from their server, even if you are just trying to get the data from your own station.

The device has an API, as does their "Hub" that reports the device to cloud. You may find tools under different names like tempestwx or etc.

That said, the point of this system is microcell climate computation, and it works best when part of the public grid of sampling points.

Does it? I couldn't find any documentation on those features, if you have links to any documentation that doesn't require going through their servers I'd love to see it since I've been looking for something just like that. Everything I have found, even for querying a single devices, requires making a request to swd.weatherflow.com via an internet connection.

EDIT: I was eventually able to find this: https://apidocs.tempestwx.com/reference/tempest-udp-broadcas...

So it is possible to get the data locally, but it seems like they are pretty strongly discouraging its use.

Having said that, there's plenty of people using this method[1]. I particularly like the work this person did presenting that data in Grafana[2].

[1] https://community.weatherflow.com/c/developers/5

[2] https://github.com/lux4rd0/weatherflow-dashboards-aio

Thanks for those links, I'll check them out!

Confused here, isn't 'indoor air quality' primarily about CO2 levels, particulate matter, VOCs, etc.? I don't see any of that in there.

Please note I replied to a comment about a book about a weather station.

Top level, I replied about CO2 levels, VOCs, etc:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33774695

This looks good, but this is an outdoor weather station. OP is asking for an indoor air quality monitory.

True. That said, it's still interesting to me, because an outdoor weather station is something I've also been eyeing, and also having trouble to find something that a) logs data, but b) not to a cloud.

> This looks good, but this is an outdoor weather station. OP is asking for an indoor air quality monitory.

I replied with an indoor no-DIY suggestion and code at top level: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33774695

> I actually wrote a book on this topic earlier this year. It walks you though setting up a weather station...

... and replied to this from immediately above with a similarly no-DIY weather option.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com