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I've been looking for a reliable way to get outdoor temperature into Home Assistant for automation purposes.  I've been using openweather which gets the weather at San Martin airport, but the reported temperatures versus what the temperature actually is here can sometimes be off by more than 5 degrees.  This is a solution that I can mount outside and doesn't require any electricity to run.  I did end up moving to a remote mounted solar panel which was twice the size (and output wattage) as the original.  This allowed me to put the sensor in the gazebo in an always shaded, yet open to air location which is unlikely to be impacted by sun impacting the actual temperature readings.

Here are some related links:

Solar Powered WiFi Weather Station V2.0
Solar Powered WiFi Weather Station V2.0 (PCBWay)
Solar E-ink Weather Station
Solar Powered WiFi Weather Station V2.0 Enclosure (Thingiverse)
Stevenson Screen for Solar Weather Station V2 (Thingiverse)
Solar Powered WiFi Weather Station V2 (Thingiverse)
Solar panel holder (Thingiverse)

Here are a number of links related to Arduino Deep Sleep.

Wemos D1 mini - sleep?
Making the ESP8266 Low-Powered With Deep Sleep
Put your Arduino to Sleep (using wake up INTERRUPT)
Wakeup From Sleep With a Timer (ESP32 + Arduino series)
ESP32 Secrets: Interrupts, and Deep-Sleep under the Hood
Max deep sleep for ESP8266
WeMos D1 mini (esp8266) deep sleep mode
WeMos D1 mini (esp8266), the three type of sleep mode to manage energy savings – Part 4
Arduino OTA and deep sleep
IoT Device with Deep Sleep example (Arduino code)
Deep sleep in Arduino

Here are some links to advanced filtering in Excel

Excel Filter to Match List of Items
Excel Advanced Filter Items in a List
Advanced Filter Criteria Examples

When my garage door is up, it blocks a significant portion of the ceiling lights.  This is a solution (a bit pricey though).

Liinc Garage Door Lighting

Here are some links to info about MQTT

Retained Messages
Last Will and Testament
MQTT Client Library Encyclopedia
php-mqtt
Display MQTT Data on a Webpage
MQTT Over WebSockets