Yep. Blasted budgets. If it was me, I'd try to move everything the esp8266 does to one pi zeroW with a nice big/fast SD card for storage and just do the read-radio-then-emit-mqtt-then-subscribe-in-weewx on one small computer. Quick google search found one library for the pi that might be worth a look for the radio (link) <https://rpi-rfm69.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>. MQTT is of course easy.
If you have (or can find) a zeroW you can get over a day with a 5000 ma usb power brick (link) <https://picockpit.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-zero-2-battery/> or even a Adafruit power booster and any battery it supports. Be careful though to get ones that can charge while discharging. I bought the wrong Adafruit card a few years ago when I started fiddling with powering via battery. That gets you down under $25 if you have a pi of course, given the supply chain issues. On Monday, September 26, 2022 at 7:54:19 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > I am leaning towards agreeing with you, Vince. So thinking of enhancing > the software in my DIY remote station and driver to create archive records. > When the outage is over, and the remote station and the base are talking > again, load all archives required to fill in the gap. > > I have no budget for new hardware. :) > > On Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 11:58:24 p.m. UTC-3 [email protected] > wrote: > >> I guess I see a lot of issues starting with expecting wifi working, >> meaning yet more ups need. Theoretically a ups backed m1 macbook air might >> do the job given its long battery life, but at that point just buy a >> vantage vue and data logger for similar price and rely on the vue console >> and logger to keep you collecting data through the outage. >> >> Davis faq says a vue can run months with a usb or serial logger and C >> batteries, and a couple days with a weatherlinkip. >> https://support.davisinstruments.com/article/9ombkjkvvv-how-long-does-the-battery-last-on-my-vantage-vue-or-vantage-pro-2-console-faq >> . >> >> Move the last 3 bubbles from PC to a raspberry pi or old screenless >>> laptop? >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/7b55bd9e-d58c-4304-a9cd-df0b5de1c414n%40googlegroups.com.
