Compact Weather Station & Environmental Monitoring — Deployment Guide

Flash the weather station firmware to the Wio Terminal over USB CDC.

Automatically configure Home Assistant with the Mosquitto MQTT broker addon, MQTT integration entry, high temperature warning automation, and a dedicated Lovelace weather dashboard.

What gets deployed

1. Mosquitto MQTT Broker: Supervisor addon installed and running.
2. MQTT Integration: Config entry pointing to your MQTT broker.
3. Automations: High temperature alert notifying when temperature exceeds 35°C.
4. Dashboard: /wio-weather Lovelace dashboard with gauges, entity cards, and 24h history trends for environmental telemetry.

Leverage an AI coding assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, or Home Assistant Copilot) to generate a customized Lovelace dashboard for your Wio Terminal weather station.

AI Agent Prompt Template

Copy the following structured prompt and provide it to your AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, or Home Assistant Copilot) along with your desired dashboard styling preferences:

You are a Home Assistant UI specialist. Please generate a modern Lovelace Dashboard configuration in YAML for my Wio Terminal Desktop Environmental Weather Station.

Here is my entity manifest:
1. Temperature Sensor:
   - Entity ID: sensor.wio_weather_station_temperature
   - Unit: °C (Range: -10 to 50 °C)
   - Style: Gauge with green (18-26 °C), yellow (26-32 °C), red (>32 °C) thresholds.
2. Humidity Sensor:
   - Entity ID: sensor.wio_weather_station_humidity
   - Unit: % (Range: 0 to 100%)
   - Style: Gauge with optimal comfort band at 40-70%.
3. Atmospheric Pressure Sensor:
   - Entity ID: sensor.wio_weather_station_pressure
   - Unit: hPa (Typical Range: 950 to 1050 hPa)
   - Style: Gauge or numerical stat card with trend indicator.
4. Ambient Illuminance Sensor:
   - Entity ID: sensor.wio_weather_station_illuminance
   - Unit: lx (Range: 0 to 10000 lx)
   - Style: Compact entity card with dynamic mdi:white-balance-sunny icon.
5. Sound / Ambient Noise Level:
   - Entity ID: sensor.wio_weather_station_ambient_noise
   - Unit: dBA (Range: 30 to 100 dBA)
   - Style: Sound meter gauge with quiet (<55 dBA), moderate (55-70 dBA), high (>70 dBA) colored segments.
6. Wi-Fi Signal Strength:
   - Entity ID: sensor.wio_weather_station_wifi_rssi
   - Unit: dBm
   - Style: Entity row or sensor card showing signal strength.

Requirements:
- Structure the dashboard using vertical-stack and horizontal-stack cards.
- Include a 24-hour history graph comparing temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure.
- Clean, modern aesthetic suitable for desktop or tablet wall displays.
- Provide pure YAML ready to paste into Home Assistant Manual Card.

Ready-to-Use Lovelace Dashboard YAML

You can also directly apply this Lovelace dashboard configuration:

type: vertical-stack
title: Wio Terminal Weather Station
cards:
  - type: horizontal-stack
    cards:
      - type: gauge
        entity: sensor.wio_weather_station_temperature
        name: Temperature
        min: -10
        max: 50
        needle: true
        severity:
          green: 18
          yellow: 26
          red: 32
      - type: gauge
        entity: sensor.wio_weather_station_humidity
        name: Humidity
        min: 0
        max: 100
        needle: true
        severity:
          red: 20
          green: 40
          yellow: 70
  - type: horizontal-stack
    cards:
      - type: gauge
        entity: sensor.wio_weather_station_pressure
        name: Barometric Pressure
        min: 900
        max: 1100
        needle: true
      - type: gauge
        entity: sensor.wio_weather_station_ambient_noise
        name: Ambient Noise
        min: 30
        max: 100
        needle: true
        severity:
          green: 30
          yellow: 55
          red: 70
  - type: entities
    title: Station Status & Lighting
    show_header_toggle: false
    entities:
      - entity: sensor.wio_weather_station_wifi_rssi
        name: Wi-Fi Signal
        icon: mdi:wifi
      - entity: sensor.wio_weather_station_illuminance
        name: Ambient Illuminance
        icon: mdi:white-balance-sunny
  - type: history-graph
    title: 24h Environmental Trends
    hours_to_show: 24
    refresh_interval: 60
    entities:
      - entity: sensor.wio_weather_station_temperature
        name: Temperature (°C)
      - entity: sensor.wio_weather_station_humidity
        name: Humidity (%)
      - entity: sensor.wio_weather_station_pressure
        name: Pressure (hPa)

Open the Home Assistant web interface to verify the deployed /wio-weather Lovelace dashboard, automatic MQTT discovery, and sensor telemetry.

What to check

1. Navigate to the /wio-weather dashboard from the sidebar or by opening http://<ha-host>:<ha-port>/wio-weather.
2. Check that real-time gauges for Temperature and Humidity update as new data arrives.
3. Check Barometric Pressure, Ambient Noise, Illuminance, and Wi-Fi RSSI cards.
4. Confirm that the 24-hour history graph plots historical trends.

Production meteorological solutions standardly connect industrial weather stations (such as SenseCAP ONE S700 / S1000 compact weather sensors) directly to the SenseCAP platform (SenseCAP PaaS / Portal) for harsh-environment outdoor monitoring, fleet diagnostics, and API automation.

This Wio Terminal starter kit serves as a low-cost desktop evaluation vehicle. Once local telemetry and Home Assistant automation are verified, weather metrics can also be forwarded to SenseCAP Portal via REST API or MQTT bridges to validate cloud telemetry, notifications, and historical archiving ahead of hardware procurement.

What to do

1. Click Open Dashboard below to open SenseCAP Portal;
2. Sign in or register a SenseCAP account, and navigate to Security -> Access API keys to create your API credentials;
3. Use a Home Assistant REST integration, MQTT forwarder, or Node-RED flow to sync sensor.wio_weather_station_* telemetry into SenseCAP;
4. Monitor live weather metrics, threshold alerts, and device status in the SenseCAP Portal;
5. Industrial Upgrade Path: When deploying professional outdoor stations (e.g., SenseCAP ONE S700 with ultrasonic wind and optical rain, or S1000 with air quality), bind the devices to the same SenseCAP account for unified operational management without re-architecting your upstream dashboards.