Hack: Adding Wifi to a non-WiFi Weather Station (and in theory anything else with radio)

The article below is quite a detailed breakdown of the approach followed to capture the initial radio signals from the outdoor weather sensor (a SDL dongle is very effective for this) and the rest deals with how the signal was decoded. The latter part obviously differs per device type.

On that front the link to the Universal Radio Hacker project is quite interesting as they also list known decodings that have already been done, so if your device is listed there, all that hard work is not necessary (in theory as I don’t see a long list of devices… yet).

See Adding Wifi to a Weather Station

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I bought a cheap weather station with the intent of adding networked data logging. I ended up reverse engineering both the RF transmission, as well as the in…