“Nice piece of kit. It's a shame the sensor connectors are on the same side of the screen so it can't be mounted flush against a surface.
The code works well, although I'm getting spurious 0.1mm rain quite frequently. A bucket tip is 0.297 mm so it's not bucket tips. I've also hard mounted the rain collector as spurious bucket tips can be a problem if mounted on the flimsy arm.
Definitely recommend.”
“The first thing that pops up in my mind upon opening the package and examining the contents is, you get what you pay for.
I find the anemometer and the wind direction finder (wind vane?) to be rather flimsy and if you add in the rainmeter they make up a nice kit for fair weather monitoring. There does not seem to be any effort made to make this water resistant and I live in Iceland where the rain can come from all directions, even up and I am certain that this won't survive a winter, but it might survive a summer so I'll experiment with that and see how it goes.
If we move on from the frailty of the system. I am excited about trying this for the summer it'll be a nice experiment and I expect to learn a lot from it and hope that I will be able to put that experience to good use if I go on to buying sturdier components for a whole year weather station sometime in the near future.
This kit is cheap and I think it will be interesting to work with it and learn how to work with the collected data.”
“I’m very happy with the kit. Things I’ve discovered with it are it’s possible to remotely mount other sensors using the I2c interface . And for the on board sensors it’s important when choosing an enclosure that all of the sensors can function properly. So whilst a light tight box will shield the temperature sensor from direct sunlight it’s no use for the ambient light sensor. So some hacking will probably be required . But then again that’s what this hobby is all about”
“This is a great kit. The instructions on the product page were easy to follow and my 12 year old son and I had the weather station up and running in a day. The only extra piece of equipment we needed to buy was a waterproof junction box but you could easily use a Tupperware box.
The only weather hat sensor we are not using is the light sensor as the pi and hat are in a dark, water tight box. We will also likely add an external temp probe as the temp sensor on the hat picks up ambient heat from pi (similar to the sense hat). What a great first first project for demonstrating using an ssh client though. We are displaying the data via the adafruit.io dashboard. We are currently all checking it more often than social media !”
