Ecowitt weather sensors

I have a whole bunch of Ecowitt sensors. Sun, rain, wind, Indoor / outdoor air quality, temp, humidity, indoor Co2, soil moisture * A separate unsecured 900mhz RF network could be an advantage for something as benign as environment monitoring, as there's no encryption overhead or bidirectional communication, it's all one way. This means, in theory, better battery life * You can use the light sensor on the weather station to more precisely trigger sun up / sun down automations. I don't do this though, the built in HA triggers are good enough for me * I have wind sensor notifications set up to …

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… use SwitchBot Indoor/Outdoor Thermo-Hygrometer which are BLE, work well, and are pretty cheap. I hsve a few other thermometers too, Hue outdoor motion sensors work well (but are pricey). YoLink work well, the update less often but have very good range and really long battery life. Ecowitt ones work nicely (I use one of their gateways). La Crosse View ones work OK most of the time, the Home Assistant integration is cloud-only (though you can use rtl433 to receive them if you want).

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