A custom weather station may be a little complicated to set up, but it's a neat use case for my old Raspberry Pi ...

GY-906 is an easy DIY Raspberry Pi project using inexpensive materials like PICO, GY-906 sensor, OLED display, push switch, etc. The project utilizes the GY-906 Infrared Temperature sensor, giving ...

The Pi can sink up to 16mA per pin if configured properly. Try that and see what happens. I normally order a few of each sensor so I can try with a different sensor if something is acting up, though.

The project is completely open source and based on a Raspberry Pi base station which connects to ESP32 based sensor nodes and online services to nicely present the data on a 7″ touch screen display.