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You mention pinging a URL with sensor values, which seems similar to what I want to do (which is to see if a remote location has power and internet connectivity or not, so I don't bother driving to work if the power is out).

You don't need a fancy wireless weather station for that. Just put a tiny server at the remote location. If you can't ping it then the power or internet is out, and you can stay at home.

I’m not using a wireless weather station. I’m just asking about the web design part. But I want to be able to check a web page with my phone, not use ping. Also the site uses starlink so there’s no static IP, so I’d have to log in to tailscale and that’s even more fiddling.

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