Just Installed Rachio, Considering My Own Weather Station

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@jangell2 - 1) The weather stations are not hard wired into the Rachio.

  1. Rachio picks up the weather data from internet sources. Therefore, the weather station needs to upload data to CWOP, Hamweather or PwsWeather for Rachio’s weather provider to pick up the data.

  2. If the weather station only uploads to WeatherUnderground you can use the process described here (start around post 126 and look for Gene) Using WUnderground.com to integrate Personal Weather Stations to integrate the data from your weather station’s data being posted on Weather Underground and being posted to PWSweather.

  3. There is a device that one can connect to some weather stations that will feed the data to multiple places on the internet.

  4. Normally, one gets what they pay for related to quality.

  5. Bad weather data in = bad irrigation settings out, the old GIGO problem.

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