SDHGPA, with the heavy contributions of Joseph DeBeer’s time, has been developing a 5G Houlfuy replacement station or at least a solution until Houlfuy develops a US 5g solution.

Joseph is still refining the sensor data processing code, but we have three second-generation stations up and running.

When we are more comfortable with the design and code, to be able to support it, and port the data to outside WX networks, it is Joseph’s intent to open-source the design and code.

See the Gen2 Stations on : https://www.sdhgpa.com/weather-stations.html

Here is the Data page for our Gen2 Palomar Station: https://weather-station-spa.web.app/?stationId=2&view=graphs

Thank you for the update Steve.

Excellent !  Thank you.

2022/10/30 update… Not seeing the values on the Marshall graph yet.

There’s nothing wrong with the data itself (the holfuy API, or any of the downstream sources that it feeds such as mesowest or Windy). All of the data goes directly from the weather station up to holfuy only (first), and then those other downstream sources pull from holfuy.

There are occasional downtimes or outages, most especially due to some of the more hardcore weather situations that can be seen up on launch; others, due to the increasing unreliability of older cellular networks in the area (the holfuy stations connect to the internet via 2G, since the 3G network was shut down this last year). The Crestline station (also a holfuy station) connects via wifi to a router in the bunker up next to launch (the radio towers). Sometimes the internet service up there fails as well (also causing outage), and that launch gets even colder/icier/snowier weather than Marshall tends to get. Sometimes the anemometers will get iced over, so for situations like that, you might see temperature readings from the station, but no wind. To put things into perspective, we’ve had the holfuy stations (3 of them – Crestline, Marshall, and AJX) up for a few years now and have never needed to touch the stations themselves. We have had anemometers fail, but that goes with the territory.

Windgrams – they occasionally get borked from weird data in the weather models (so you’ll see a day or two with no image, or you’ll notice the wrong day applied to one that you an see), and also (rarely) an occasional server hiccup that needs to be addressed by Alan. He provides great service to that app and is very responsive to emails (in my experience).