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Justifying purchasing a weather station (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by Melde@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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Hello! I'm eyeballing an Ecowitt weather station and would like your suggestions as to what to do with it. Are there automations you do with it? Just displaying a weather dashboard? Mostly using it for the inside temp/humidity sensors?

Please help me justify buying it to myself!

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[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I use mine quite a lot. I have a weather dashboard, and the forecasts from my weather station are second to none, way more accurate than any other option. I also use them in a lot of automations. Many of which are here, the python script described there is using a lot of weather data to make decisions about whether to keep the heat lower in the morning or not. Saves me pretty good money on heating.

[–] Distributed@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Nice dashboard!! What weather station do you use?

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Weatherflow Tempest. Not cheap but excellent weather station with great integration ro HA.