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Revision as of 11:16, 22 February 2017
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Contents
Introduction
The Plugin for the Ventus W266 is used to connect a Ventus W266 weather station to a home controller like Domoticz.
The Ventus W266 is also sold as a RenkForce W205GU. The unit consists of a battery powered (4xAA) outdoor sensor unit containing the following functions:
- Outdoor temperature
- Outdoor humidity
- Wind direction
- Average wind speed
- Gust wind speed
- Cumulative rainfall
- UV index
- Cumulative number of lightning strikes
- Distance of the nearest lightning strike
The indoor display unit is connected through a wireless 868MHz connection and has the following functions:
- Indoor temperature
- Indoor humidity
- Barometric pressure
- DCF77 clock
The plugin can only read the sensors of the outdoor unit.
CONNECTING THIS PLUGIN WILL VOID THE WARRANTY OF YOUR WEATHER STATION!
Hardware
Did we already say that using this plugin VOIDS YOUR WARRANTY? That is because to use this plugin you have to open up your display unit and solder the ESP inside.
Connections
To use the plugin it needs to be connected to the receiver module inside the Ventus display unit.
