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My current weather station which has been brillant is now showing signs of age. One of its remote sensors has started to show completely wrong temperatures and I fear the other sensors will eventually go the same way. Still it is 10 years or more old! 

Trouble is looking at the weather stations currently on offer most seem more gimmicky with "moon phase and cloud" icons. etc

My current one offers 4 remote sensors which each come with remote cables as you can position the temperature sensor where you want. And the weather station shows the current temp and min/max of those 4 external areas along with the temperature of the station itself. It also has a min/max alarm.

Any suggestions?

 

cheers

bill 

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Bill, if you are looking for a really good weather station, lots of people trust Davis Weather Station.  Vantage Vue is the more affordable one.

http://www.davisnet.com/weather-monitoring/

I'm not sure if AcuRite is available in Europe, but AcuRite Pro 5-in-1 Weather station is much cheaper.  It is not the same level as Davis, but people do have fun with it.

https://www.acurite.com

If you want to log just simple things like temperature and humidity (e.g., to monitor different grow space), you can make wi-fi based logger cheaply with ESP8266 (or aruduino) and Raspberry Pi (or some small computer)

http://www.instructables.com/id/ESP8266-Wifi-Temperature-Logger/

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/getting-started-openhab-home-automation-raspberry-pi/

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/openhab-beginners-guide-part-2-zwave-mqtt-rules-charting/

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