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I have an AcuRite Bridge with a 5-in-1 Station. I recently got a 3-in-1 station (that's going through the bridge) and another 5-in-1 station (which will go through the bridge). How do I pick/set which reading are used by meteobridge?

I guess the Acu bridge does have the same problem to select one of these outdoor sensors. When you have one bound to the Acu bridge, Meteobridge will follow that.

Right now my bridge is getting data from my 5-in-1 and my 3-in-1, and sending the data for both the 5-in-1 and 3-in-1 to AcuRite, and the meteobridge is taking the data from the 5-in-1. The bridge is reporting the data for the 5-in-1 and the 3-in-1 to AcuRite, so it doesn’t have to select it just does both. I have another 5-in-1 that I’m planning to hook up and then the bridge will receive and transmit data for all 3 stations (3 is the limit for the AcuRite Bridge).

It would be good if I could select which station reading is used by meteobridge, or even better, if I could tell meteobridge to average the same sensor types from stations that I select. For example, average the temperature reading s from 5-in-1 #1, 3-in-1, and 5-in-1 #2; humidity from 3-in-1, and 5-in-1 #2, etc. I can place the stations around my house and get a good average. I would like to select which stations are in the average because one station may have a bad sensor so I wouldn’t want to include it in the average. I can see the values for each sensor and each station at the AcuRite site, so I could setup the meteobridge reading to use the average from the sensors and stations that were working properly.

Is that something that you could add to your probably long list of enhancements? I know that averaging sensors from different stations would really make my numbers more reliable.

I have a similar situation, but not exactly the same. I have a 5-N-1 and a tower sensor. The bridge is sending data from both to Acurite. I would like to have Meteobridge send the wind and rain data from the 5-N-1, and the temperature and humidity data from the tower to Weather Underground. Currently, it just sends all data from the 5-N-1. Would it be possible (okay, reasonable) to get this feature?

For sake of simplicity I avoided to make the user to select the primary sensors from possible options.
I will take it on the wishlist, without knowing how to realize this by avoiding a complex sensor assignment
UI as I realized with Meteohub, which is stellar powerful (driving even many stations in parallel) but quite
a hurdle for the first time user.

Thanks, I really appreciate you adding it to the wish list - it will really help me out!

If you can add an option for averaging sensors that would be perfect. I have multiple stations with the same sensor type around my house and an average of sensors that I select would certainly give me optimum readings to send to WU, CWOP, etc. If you want to do any brain storming of ideas for how to present it to a user, or have someone to do some preliminary testing I would be more than happy to help.

joegr - I know what you mean about the 5-in-1 vs. the tower. My tower temperature and humidity readings seem to be more accurate than the 5-in-1 readings. If we can get a new release with multiple stations with averaging then I’ll buy another tower and then average the temperature and humidity from the two towers, use the 5-in-1 for the wind direction and rain, average the wind speed from all three stations (I would drop the temperature and humidity from the 5-in-1), and use the pressure from the bridge.

I really think this new averaging/selection feature will really enhance the numbers that I send from my location.

I have an idea for the UI.

The AcuRite Bridge support at most 3 stations and they transmit on channel A, B, or C – which is set by the user.

The UI could have 3 columns labeled A, B and C, and the rows for each column would be the sensor type: wind speed, wind direction, rainfall, temperature, humidity. An “x” in a row and column would indicate you want to use the sensor for the station in the selected row/column. If you put an “x” for the same sensor in two or three different columns then it means you want to average the sensors that are selected.

I think it’s pretty straightforward (as the user has to physically select A, B or C on their stations with a switch). I’m sure some may try to select sensors that aren’t available for the station, though maybe you could determine the sensors that are available if you know the station type and if so grey out the sensors that aren’t available?

In this example the Temperature would be the average of Stations B and C; Humidity would be the average of Stations B and C; Rain would be from Station A; Wind speed would be the average of Stations A, B, and C; and Wind Direction would be from Station A (Note that the Bridge does the pressure).

-------------------A-----B-----C
Temperature----------X-----X
Humidity---------------X----- X
Rain--------------X
Wind Speed-----X------X-----X
Wind Direction-X

Thanks for your ideas. But it will need a general solution also working for all other types of weather stations.
I guess it will not support multiple wind, rain, uv, solar or pressure sensors, but it should give options
to select which temp sensor to use as primary sensor when more than one is there. At least this is
something which has bee requested from some users, because the statnrd main temp sensor is
defect or located not so well.

I don’t know, but I would suspect that stations would transmit some kind of indicator that identifies the station type and id? Possibly the meteobridge could listen to the transmissions and as it detected the stations it would populate the columns with the station ids and types and enable/grey out the sensor types based on the stations detected? If the meteobridge can’t detect the station id/type then the user would have to populate the columns with a drop down menu, but it seems that it may work easier for the user if the meteobridge detects the station type and id rather then have the user enter the station type and id. If you have a pull-down list for each column then you would somehow have to indicate the id for the station when two of the exact same station types are used.

If you would consider the averaging option too I’m sure others would use/like it and it would be a selling point for the meteobridge as users could use the average of multiple sensors rather then rely on a single sensor. Do you know how many other configurations permit a user to average multiple sensors into one reading? I would suspect that for most users the average of multiple sensors would make their stations “the most accurate” in the area. If a user had multiple stations with the same sensor I would think that most would rather average the two sensors rather than pick only one. As you indicated, if the user knows they have a bad/unreliable/bad location for a sensor then they would want to drop it out of the average.

Again, thank you for considering these upgrades!

As an aside, does the PM system work? Did you get my PM?

joegr wrote:I have a similar situation, but not exactly the same. I have a 5-N-1 and a tower sensor. The bridge is sending data from both to Acurite. I would like to have Meteobridge send the wind and rain data from the 5-N-1, and the temperature and humidity data from the tower to Weather Underground. Currently, it just sends all data from the 5-N-1. Would it be possible (okay, reasonable) to get this feature?

I second this request. It would be fantastic to have the ability to select the appropriate sensor.