58.3 °F

About This Weather Station

Observations Powered by an Ecowitt GW1104

This website is automatically updated in real time (about every 20 seconds) with weather observations from a GW1102 personal weather station located in Fremont, CA.. Weather data is received by a GW1100 sensor gateway module. WeeWX connects to the gatway to get current data, generate the static site, and provide live data feed. The weather station provides the following readings:

  • Temperature
  • Humidity
  • Wind speed
  • Wind direction
  • Rainfall
  • UV
  • Solar radiation
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Station hardware: Ecowitt GW1100
  • Server uptime: 7974552 seconds
  • WeeWX uptime: 1260052 seconds
  • WeeWX version: 5.1.0
  • Belchertown Skin Version: 1.3.1

There are Alexa and Siri skills to use the weather station:

The Alexa skill is Caphector's Weather Station. Asking Alexa about the temperature provides current temperature, a basic forecast, and the daily high/low. Asking about the weather will read out the temperature response and also provide humidity, dew point, barometric pressure, rain, and wind speed. The skill can be be invoked with:

Alexa, ask weather station about the temperature

Alexa, ask weather station about the weather

Alexa, ask weather station about the humidity

HomeKit uses a Siri Shortcut; it can be installed from from Apple's iCloud. This shortcut will provide current temperature, a basic forecast, and the daily high/low (forecast data from Aeris Weather). It can be invoked with:

Hey siri, weather

I built an Sky camera to have a record of sky conditions. It uploads a sky photo once every 90 seconds or so. It genrates time lapses showing the sky each day and night, tries to generate composite star trail images, and keograms which are kind of a sky state summary.