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Getting Vevor 7in1 weather stations working with rtl_433, MQTT, and Home Assistant

Please note: my Vevor weather station failed after a few months because of ineffective weather seals on the outdoor unit. Vevor is refusing to provide any sort of warranty on the item, so I would strongly encourage you to consider literally any other vendor’s product… In the end I bought a weather station from Jaycar which works just fine.

Now that we’ve defeated QNAP’s slightly broken udev, we can run a Docker container with rtl_433 in it to wire up our Vevor 7in1 weather station to Home Assistant via MQTT. First off, we need a Docker container running rtl_433, which assumes you’ve already setup the udev rule mentioned in the previous post, even if you’re not using a QNAP!

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Configuring USB device pass through to Docker on QNAP NASes

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So, this was a lot harder than it really should have been, especially because rtl_433 is a bit thingie about where the device appears in the /dev/ file system as an added sting in the tail…

In my specific scenario, I was given a Vevor 7-in-1 wireless weather station for Christmas. They seem fairly solid and full featured for a $130 AUD device, so no complaints there. The device is also natively supported by rtl_433 which is a RTL SDR package, although its not supported in the version shipped by Debian 12. That’s awesome, although it would have been nice if the command line to use was documented better. I’ll talk more about those bits in a later post though. In this one I want to focus on the fun I had getting a USB device reliably passed through to a Docker container on my QNAP NAS.

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