- So, I don't know how it is where you are,
but here in Florida, we love talking about the weather.
Even when it's great like this.
But that got me thinking,
it was time for a new weather station.
So, I've had one here at the house,
it's plenty reliable, still worked great.
But it was just old, it was an LCD display
and it wasn't connected at all.
Time for something better; time for something smarter.
Time for something definitely more modern.
Let's go take a look.
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So, I needed a new weather station,
and I did what anyone in my position would go do;
I typed in, what is the best weather station.
And one that consistently came up was Netatmo.
And that by the way is how you say it, Netatmo.
So I went with Netatmo
and was actually able to find some deals on Amazon.
So, hunt around a little bit before you buy
and I'll have links down below if that will help you at all.
Now, Netatmo has a few things
that you can buy when it comes to weather, right.
So you got your basic indoor/outdoor station.
One part of it goes inside
and tells you about the inside of your house.
One part of it stays outside
and tells you what it's like outside, pretty simple.
Then you can also buy a rain gauge
and that's one I actually like a lot
especially living here in Florida
'cause here it's either monsoon or desert
not a whole lot of in between.
Then there's a wind gauge.
Now I don't really care about that quite as much
so I didn't bother getting it
but if you want to know what the wind is like
or if you want your neighbors to know what the wind is like
and I'll get more into that in a second, you can get one.
So the indoor module is surprisingly small,
looks bigger in pictures.
Here's a frozen banana for scale, don't, don't ask.
Don't judge me.
Then you have the outdoor module,
it's a little bit smaller and that's good
'cause I'm gonna wanna hide it up there and leave it outside
It uses a couple batteries
and I honestly don't know how long it'll last yet
we'll just have to see.
Set up is simple enough.
You're going to pair the indoor module to your phone
and then you're going to pair
the outdoor module to the indoor module.
And any of the other modules that you get,
the rain gauge or the wind gauge,
you'll pair in the same way.
It's easy enough of you've ever paired anything to anything.
And that's that; you're going to have your account all setup
and then everything just works.
So, what kind of information do you get with all this?
Well you get temperature of course; you get wind speed
and you get wind speed even if you don't have the wind gauge
It'll pluck that out of other places where wind comes from,
including other Netatmo users.
Definitely digging the Ipad app.
It's pretty simple and really the same information
you get anywhere else but I like the way it's presented.
So, you get temperature, min and max for the day;
we're up to almost 94 already in May.
So, the mobile apps is pretty good, very functional
and they look very similar.
Can tell you everything you're going to see.
Current weather, outdoor temperature, pressure,
dewpoint, humidity, forecast, stuff like that.
On the bottom, you have inside,
you have your CO2 level, you have indoor temperature,
you have a sound meter and humidity.
If I tap here it'll show me
the minimum and maximum for the day.
So, that's kinda cool.
Also right now it's at the hottest point of the day
and we're only in May.
Down at the bottom we have indoor.
So, I have indoor air temperature and air quality,
that's CO2, carbon dioxide, boys and girls
back from science class.
And minimum and maximum.
Netatmo also has a really good website
if you don't want to deal with phones
and you just wanna get things that way.
Cool, you just log in and it's all there
pretty easy to see.
You can see any or all of your sensors.
So, I have inside, outside and rainy mcrain face.
You can go under the weather map here as well and see
not just your station but everyone's station.
Here in the weather map
you can see Netatmo stations everywhere
except for in the desert, apparently, most of the desert.
Pretty cool 'cause you can click through here
and get temperature and rain and wind information
all in one place.
Oh, and the indoor sensor too, tells you how loud it is.
So when your kids are in there throwing a party
as my six year old is prone to do,
especially early in the morning on the weekend,
you'll know it.
So, this weather stuff is actually just part
of what Netatmo has going on.
They also do security cameras;
and they have a couple different models.
Prices get up there a little bit, but they look pretty cool.
They have a healthy home coach,
which is suppose to make it better for you at home, okay.
And if you're in Europe,
they actually make a thermostat as well
but that one is not available to us here in the US.
I'm really hoping that Netatmo or somebody else
builds a third party scale for the new Amazon echo show.
How great would this be.
So you got it always on display,
you can always see what the weather is very quickly
or you know, I could just stick my head outside, I guess.
So that's it for Netatmo,
now it's not an expensive, I get that
but I do like that it's modular
so you can buy as much or as little of it as you'd like.
I have the basic indoor/outdoor station.
I have the rain gauge.
I didn't bother getting the wind gauge,
just 'cause I don't really care how windy it is outside.
They've got a pretty good APIs.
So, all sorts of things tie into it.
My Nest ties into it.
Anything that ties into it
if this the Net can talk to it, super simple.
So if you have anymore questions about this,
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