wotalota replied to the topic 'Weather station connection to Ekos' in the forum. 3 months ago

www.indilib.org/individuals/devices/weather-stations.html

When it comes to detecting bad weather conditions and parking the mount and closing things down you can consider using more than one of the weather options. 'Weather Safety Proxy' will consider input from up to 4 other named weather stations.

The WeeWX driver is another option, it supports some different weather stations including the Davis Pro.

With some DYI (Arduino wiring and coding glue) you can also supplement with individual local sensors. For example the Davis uses a rain bucket while an RG11 sensor can detect the slightest drops of rain. When adding a local sensor such as a RG11 rain detector using the 'Weather Meta' is handy. Then Weather Meta can be one of the inputs Weather Proxy considers.

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