# Enviro+ for outside conditions

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 12, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/enviro-for-outside-conditions/12428 "2019-12-12T11:49:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![paulv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@paulv](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/paulv)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/enviro-for-outside-conditions/12428/1 "2019-12-12T11:49:05Z")

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I have an Enviro+ with Raspberry Pi 3 which is working very well but would like to use the Enviro+ outside.

Has anyone thoughts on how to weatherproof the Enviro+ bearing in mind that it has light / temperature / humidity / pressure sensors so I don’t want to entirely box it up.

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**Author:** ![Crowbot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/crowbot/32/5888_2.png) [@Crowbot](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/Crowbot)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/enviro-for-outside-conditions/12428/2 "2019-12-12T13:25:15Z")

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It depends on how weatherproof it has to be.

I haven’t tried this but a quick search brought up this one:

> **[Raspberry Pi IP65 Weatherproof IoT Project Enclosure - Sixfab](https://sixfab.com/product/raspberry-pi-ip65-weatherproof-iot-project-enclosure/)**
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> Deploy your outdoor Raspberry Pi project without concerning rain, snow, dust in this IP65 plastic case with clear top. This weatherproof enclosure has three IP67 SMA to u.FL(IPEX) cable connector for connectivity and a waterproof IP68 micro USB...

It looks like it’s vented in that back so it would be OK for temp/humidity reading…

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**Author:** ![Jdtinker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@Jdtinker](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/Jdtinker)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/enviro-for-outside-conditions/12428/3 "2020-01-17T00:01:30Z")

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I thought about that too. Problem I find is that the RPi 3 &4 board gets warm enough to alter the temp and humidity measurements on the enviro board. The PiZero is much cooler but I can’t get it to run the enviroplus scripts on boot using the ‘cron’ function.

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**Author:** ![paulv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@paulv](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/paulv)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/enviro-for-outside-conditions/12428/4 "2020-01-17T09:32:57Z")

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My conclusion was that the Environ+ is not really designed for outdoor use as it stands as the electronics is not protected or coated. I bought an enclosure similar to the one shown in the previous post which is an outdoor enclosure with a clear top and I will cut out the bottom panel so that air will circulate around inside. I can then mount it with the open panel pointing downwards.

I use a RPi 3 but connect to the Environ+ using a short ribbon cable.so that should get over the issue of the heat from the RPi causing problems. If I do find it an issue, I may have to have a separate enclosure for the Environ+

If you look at how the professionals do it, they have special enclosures with slated walls to allow air to circulate.

> **[How we measure temperature - Met Office](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/guides/observations/how-we-measure-temperature)**
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> Temperatures is taken using specialist thermometers dependent upon the surface for which temperature is required.

In the future I may look at getting waterproofed measurement sensors but they have to be individually connected and it would take more time and effort to get it working.