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Getting weather data from my Acurite sensors was shockingly easy


I've had a Pi and SDR earmarked for 'getting weather data from my weather station' for a long time now. I don't know why I waited so long, because it was shockingly easy.

I will still be working to integrate into Home Assistant, but at least for now, I'm running WeeWX on my Pi so I have a full web dashboard for the Acurite sensors. At this point, WeeWX will have the plugin running but no data will get captured until you manually configure which sensors you want to use, in a[[sensor_map]] in the/etc/weewx/weewx.conf file. Create a udev rule file with sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/sdr.rules, and put the following inside:

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