https://github.com/vinthewrench/offgrid-weather-station
haven't actually done it, but this is the best writeup I've found. Now it can sit in your pile of projects to get to someday too!
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I would look at ESP32 boards and make something like this
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I used wview for years, and published a couple of weather stations publically. Sadly that looks to be abandoned now.
Nowadays I just run Home Assistant and combine an anenometer, a rain tip gauge and about a million different temperature sensors into that, mostly with 8266's running Esphome to collect and forward that data. It's a fun and cheap little hobby if you like collecting data. The gauge and anenometer were off aliexpress for about £5 each, the esps about the same, and temp sensors less than a quid each. All software foss of course, and uses almost no resources so can run on any linux server.
What do you mean? FOSS? Open hardware or able to integrate with existing foss like home assistant?
For the latter, I’ve used ecowitt based weather stations myself. they’re very durable, give reliable data and came with a quality manual for not much money.
They come with an app but you can just decide not to use it, all the data is available on the device, hosted as a web server. It has good integrations with HA which is what I use for long term storage together with influxdb.
Man, Benn Jordan made an awesome video about this!
https://youtu.be/W_F4rEaRduk?t=930
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