Putting a dumb weather station on the internet
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·October 7, 2025puterbonga
XorNot
There's a magical world out there where Tuya leave us with the ability to OTA flash custom firmware of we have physical access, and then we can all just run ESPHome on private wifi networks.
Thev00d00
"If you want to support me, send me AA batteries" in the bot account profile made me chuckle.
eternauta3k
Holy cow, cheap weather stations are encoding and decoding JSON? What a century.
mungoman2
No, the tool rtl_433 repackages payload data in json for easier downstream consumption.
dn3500
You might consider joining the Citizen Weather Observer Program. It's a great way to share your data with other station owners.
I had a station for a few years. The receiver had a usb interface so no software radio required. I used weewx to import the data. I even had a water temperature sensor off the end of my dock so I could see if the lake was warm enough to swim in.
the_gipsy
I want to do the reverse: I have a DIY esp32 "weather" station (temp/humidity but more importantly particle sensor) and I would love to share it via radio!
defraudbah
this is one of the most fascinating and funniest articles i've read in a while
brna-2
I was kinda expecting analogue tech and computer vision here. :D Nice work.
phito
Cool project but I would just have used a zigbee/wifi weather station, they are just as cheap.
3D30497420
I get the sense from the article that part of the fun was doing this via radio frequencies rather than having to deal with a network.
> At this point, we've connected the Temu weather station to the Internet and the ham radio network. Anyone with an APRS-enabled radio, digipeater, receiver, or just a web browser can see what the temperature and humidity are at my house.
Every time someone does a project like this, it exposes how trivial “IoT” really is once you strip away vendor lock in and buzzwords. A $3 sensor, a 10 line script, and a 40 year old ham protocol outperform half the commercial weather APIs out there.