I see Rain Alerts and Lightning Alerts, and I would really like to see Wind Alerts. Wind can be very destructive so knowing the wind is building could be very helpful. For us, it is important that we get our horses into the barn if the wind gets too high, because our property is very treed and falling branches could injure our horses.
What I would like to see is the ability to set a threshold that would activate the alert. My threshold would seldom, if ever, change. However, my threshold would not be the same as what someone else might pick, so the threshold needs to be able to be set by the individual user.
Thanks for your consideration.
How will that work? Rain is either On or Off. Wind is a large variable from 0 to a crap load.
Don’t forget to vote for your own feature request! Just posting is not quite enough… In the meantime, have you checked our the IFTTT integrations you can use with your Tempest? For example: https://ifttt.com/applets/UVcCwzsg
I think he means a certain threshold will activate the alert. Let’s say 40mph May set an alert
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Yes. I would like the ability to set a threshold that would activate the alert. My threshold would seldom, if ever, change. However, my threshold would not be the same as what someone else might pick.
You should edit your original post and put the threshold details in the request.
I could also benefit from a wind alert of winds at or above a settable threshold value.
Users enter the gust threshold. Like: warn me if the wind exceeds 15 MPH.
If you check the edits on the topic, you will see that the OP added the second paragraph after I suggested he do so.
No problem. I’m just sad that five months later, it only has five votes.
Weatherflow also owns windalert.com If you made your Tempest data publicly available you can setup a free account with windalert, lookup your station or any other station, and setup alerts.
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Verified wind alert works for a Tempest station, but I’m a paid member of Weatherflow iWindsurf. Lots of options available including Average or Gust level, direction, time of day and more.
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Thanks but I’m interested in offgrid solutions. If I could accept a dependency to the Internet, I wouldn’t really need a weather station at all. Plenty of online meterological data is free for the taking.
I’ll probably roll my own using the UDP LAN data. I’m extremely forgiving of WeatherFlow since they make the raw data directly available from the hub. So nice to have near direct access to our own data.
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