Home Weather Stations with Programmatic Access to Sensor Readings?

For those looking for a Weather station with an API (Programmatic Access to data):

1) Ambient Weather

  • JSON Formatted Data
  • Connection secured by key
  • Lot of weather stations (from $100 to $1000)

2) WeatherFlow Smart Home Weather Station

  • REST API and local data access via UDP and BLE
  • Solar powered
  • AI / Machine learning improves forecasts over time (someone has more informations?)
  • $299.95

3) Acurite

  • Open source API that can be installed on Rasperi PI: acuparse
  • But unavailable in most European countries...

4) Vantage Pro2

  • Solar powered
  • From $600 to $1300 for the Vantage Pro2 or $240 for the Vantage Vue (weather station only)

5) Froggit weather stations

  • From 65€ to 314€ (more if you take more screen with it)
  • Looks hard to configure access to data. Configure the console to send to weewx

A little comparative page between weather stations with API

To be continued... (Feel free to comment if you see more informations to add to this answer)


A different approach is to look at some of the already existing weather software available, and see which weather stations they support. One can assume that those weather stations have a reasonably accessible interface, which you could use.

I'd check out some of the stations supported by for instance wview or Weather Display.