Anyone using Netatmo?
I am thinking about making a switch to Netatmo weather station and am wondering if anyone is using it and how well it performs with Rainmachine.
Specifically the rain gauge if anyone using that.
Rain gauge is important to me because I live in South Florida and my house can get a storm with 2 inches of rain and down the street they get ZERO rain.
Thanks.
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I also have a similar "big" weather station from Ambient Weather integrated with WUnderground and I'm using both in my RainMachine.
From my own experience NetAtmo data retrieval seems to be better than WUnderground but NetAtmo RainGauge always seems to report less rain than my big weather station and I stopped using the Wind Module from NetAtmo for good as I was getting stange speed readings. I might be wrong but I believe that the old simple anemometer works better than ultrasonic one in NetAtmo.
I think one of the misunderstanding in RainMachine interface comes from the fact that it displays QPF (precipitation forecast) not the actual measured precipitation (which you actually receive after 1 day) when you have Weather Stations / WUnderground integrated. The only places where measured is shown is on Web UI dashboard MONTH tab and on
Setting > Weather > Weather Services > RAIN tab (you'll have to select a few days back on time range).
Under the hood RainMachine does the irrigation corrections using the measured RAIN but UI is not so user friendly showing that.
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Nicholas,
Thank you for explaining all that. On the WEB UI I am getting a red message saying "Could not get specified station data". I have been using my PWS with the same API for the last lear and it is just starting to say that message. On the APP I have NO warning at all and it says PASSED
Could this be causing my problems why I am seeing nothing on any of the graphs?
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