Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Home Assistant has lots of options for getting weather data, but a lot of them are cloud-based. And while that isn’t bad, it does introduce some risk. Weather Underground, World Wide Lightning Network, and Darksky have all announced they were closing their APIs or moving behind a paywall in the last year or two.
While the beauty of Home Assistant’s Choose Your Own Adventure-style of Home Automation means you have lots of options when one disappears, it also means we can integrate other hardware that we might already have. Like, say….Acurite Weather Sensors, or any 433mhz Sensor actually.
In this video I will cover what sensors I am using, and how to use a Home Assistant Add-on I created to get them integrated to MQTT.
The only perquisites are that you have a Supervised version of Home Assistant and an MQTT server integrated. Then you just need a $22 USB radio, and some RF weather sensors.
For the types of sensors this software can pick up checkout:
[github.com/thejeffreystone/hassio_addons/blob/main/acurite2mqtt/PROTOCOLS.md]
Here are the video chapters:
00:00 - Integrate Acurite Sensors with Home Assistant - Intro
01:35 - Hardware Needed to Get Acurite Sensors into Home Assistant
02:35 - Acurite to Home Assistant Add-on
05:13 - Wrap Up
Links to things in the video:
Acurite to Home Assistant Add-On:
github.com/thejeffreystone/hassio_addons
Amazon Affiliate Links:
USB Dongle for picking up RF signals from sensors:
amzn.to/3gFRGmc
Acurite Lightning Sensor:
amzn.to/37a2t4F
Acurite Temp / Humidity Sensor
[amzn.to/2LtCtJi]
Inspiration for this Project:
433_RTL Software: github.com/merbanan/rtl_433
Other Hassio Add-ons
github.com/ChristianLorenz/hassio-rtl_433/blob/master/rtl_433/Dockerfile
github.com/james-fry/hassio-addons
Who am I?
My Name is Jeff. I am an Automator of boring things and a huge Home Assistant fan. I also live in a house that tweets.
Follow Me:
Github - github.com/thejeffreystone
Twitter - twitter.com/thejeffreystone / twitter.com/slackerlabs
On the Web - slacker-labs.com
And if you like this video you could always fuel my automation habit -
One Time Donation:
Paypal: paypal.com/paypalme/SlackerLabs
Cash App: $slackerlabs
Buy me a coffee: buymeacoffee.com/icE6DeBut
Or use my Amazon affiliate link to buy some sweet Home Automation gear - amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?k=Home+Automation&ref=nb_sb_noss_2&linkCode=ll2&tag=thejeffreysto-20&linkId=18622d75c4923c69c2b7488cec58ad5e&language=en_US _
which helps support this content.
The affiliate links provide a small commission on things you buy without additional cost to you.
If you want to follow my house on Twitter, you can at twitter.com/anchoragehouse2 but be warned....it can be snarky.
Home Assistant has lots of options for getting weather data, but a lot of them are cloud-based. And while that isn’t bad, it does introduce some risk. Weather Underground, World Wide Lightning Network, and Darksky have all announced they were closing their APIs or moving behind a paywall in the last year or two.
While the beauty of Home Assistant’s Choose Your Own Adventure-style of Home Automation means you have lots of options when one disappears, it also means we can integrate other hardware that we might already have. Like, say….Acurite Weather Sensors, or any 433mhz Sensor actually.
In this video I will cover what sensors I am using, and how to use a Home Assistant Add-on I created to get them integrated to MQTT.
The only perquisites are that you have a Supervised version of Home Assistant and an MQTT server integrated. Then you just need a $22 USB radio, and some RF weather sensors.
For the types of sensors this software can pick up checkout:
[github.com/thejeffreystone/hassio_addons/blob/main/acurite2mqtt/PROTOCOLS.md]
Here are the video chapters:
00:00 - Integrate Acurite Sensors with Home Assistant - Intro
01:35 - Hardware Needed to Get Acurite Sensors into Home Assistant
02:35 - Acurite to Home Assistant Add-on
05:13 - Wrap Up
Links to things in the video:
Acurite to Home Assistant Add-On:
github.com/thejeffreystone/hassio_addons
Amazon Affiliate Links:
USB Dongle for picking up RF signals from sensors:
amzn.to/3gFRGmc
Acurite Lightning Sensor:
amzn.to/37a2t4F
Acurite Temp / Humidity Sensor
[amzn.to/2LtCtJi]
Inspiration for this Project:
433_RTL Software: github.com/merbanan/rtl_433
Other Hassio Add-ons
github.com/ChristianLorenz/hassio-rtl_433/blob/master/rtl_433/Dockerfile
github.com/james-fry/hassio-addons
Who am I?
My Name is Jeff. I am an Automator of boring things and a huge Home Assistant fan. I also live in a house that tweets.
Follow Me:
Github - github.com/thejeffreystone
Twitter - twitter.com/thejeffreystone / twitter.com/slackerlabs
On the Web - slacker-labs.com
And if you like this video you could always fuel my automation habit -
One Time Donation:
Paypal: paypal.com/paypalme/SlackerLabs
Cash App: $slackerlabs
Buy me a coffee: buymeacoffee.com/icE6DeBut
Or use my Amazon affiliate link to buy some sweet Home Automation gear - amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?k=Home+Automation&ref=nb_sb_noss_2&linkCode=ll2&tag=thejeffreysto-20&linkId=18622d75c4923c69c2b7488cec58ad5e&language=en_US _
which helps support this content.
The affiliate links provide a small commission on things you buy without additional cost to you.
If you want to follow my house on Twitter, you can at twitter.com/anchoragehouse2 but be warned....it can be snarky.
