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I have a network connected weather station. I like it. It can pipe data directly into my homeassistant which is pretty handy.

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>Perhaps it's apartment life cramping my HF style, but I've been into APRS ever since I got into ham radio. It's an interesting way to share little bits of data with the world such as messages, positions, and weather information. As such, there are many commercial weather stations available that one can buy and hook up, and they will share their measurements via APRS, using either radio or the Internet (the latter is called APRS-IS). I've seen some online, and they're great. Some of them can measure temperature, humidity, precipiation, wind, radiation, light intensity, and more. The major downside, though, is that these are expensive and cumbersome. There are few hobbies that really embrace the hacker ethos, and amateur radio is one of them. It's the only service where the FCC explicitly allows operators to build their own compliant equipment.

I have a network connected weather station. I like it. It can pipe data directly into my homeassistant which is pretty handy. Archive: https://archive.today/oQuaX From the post: >>Perhaps it's apartment life cramping my HF style, but I've been into APRS ever since I got into ham radio. It's an interesting way to share little bits of data with the world such as messages, positions, and weather information. As such, there are many commercial weather stations available that one can buy and hook up, and they will share their measurements via APRS, using either radio or the Internet (the latter is called APRS-IS). I've seen some online, and they're great. Some of them can measure temperature, humidity, precipiation, wind, radiation, light intensity, and more. The major downside, though, is that these are expensive and cumbersome. There are few hobbies that really embrace the hacker ethos, and amateur radio is one of them. It's the only service where the FCC explicitly allows operators to build their own compliant equipment.

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We need something like this. Imagine the different understandings of weather that could be made when there is now data from different elevations / each floor of a building /cell tower/large tranmission power lines. That would make us ask questions nobody has asked before and lead towards figuring it out. Having the ability to process all of that is something worthy of some kind of shared world project where all countries chip in and reap the rewards.

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Sadly, it wont happen because no profit. Companies like Amazon have been trying to get the gov to "let them store the data for free" that they collect... So they can sell access to others in their cloud env as if you were in the same datacenter.

Its a long and very frustrating story. Though, we are talking about PB worth of data easily and not even touching on the compute needed to properly process it.