Showing posts with label Homeseer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homeseer. Show all posts

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Wind gauge added to Netatmo station plus gotchas.

Wind Gauge for The Netatmo Weather Station
I mounted it to the top of the pole where the Davis station used to be with a camera mount. Not sure I like the mount or the location though.

I'll probably end up getting the Netatmo Mount, for Netatmo Rain Gauge and Wind Gauge to mount it despite the price once I sort out where I want to put it permanently. I've been having issues with the outdoor module loosing connection. I had it attached to a bird feeder hanger and the metal in that seems to really messed with it after awhile. Putting fresh batteries in helped for about 24 hours. Then I moved the indoor module into the living room to remove an intervening wall. Finally I mounted it to the side of the house and that jumped the signal back from 2 bars to 5!

Even putting the wind gauge atop that pole looks to have messed with it a good bit. Sitting in the yard on a block to test signal it was getting 4 bars near the pole. But on the pole is has dropped top to 2 bars. Seems like things are pretty iffy below 3 bars. Fortunately with the Homeseer plugin I get an alert if any of the sensors do not connect to the hub at least once in an hour so monitoring it is simple.