Either will work, and both have been used successfully. Personally, rather than tie up a nice machine like your Mac, I would invest $50 and get an RPi with a good SD card. Then you get to learn about that ecosystem, as well as weewx.
-tk On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:40 PM, George Fievet <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all. While I not new to the world of weather station hosting, I > am new to weewx. > I'm currently using WeatherSnoop to serve weather data from my Davis > Vantage Vue. I don't have any issues with my setup but I recently learned > about weewx and thought it might be fun to play with that. > > Anyway, I'm trying to decide if I'm better of using my Mac (same machine > which hosts WeatherSnoop) to run weewx or if a Ubuntu Linux box would be a > better choice. > The Mac is a much more powerful machine but I could dedicate the Linux box > to this server and not worry about Apple changing things on me. The Linux > box is netbook with 2GB of RAM. I'm assuming that's enough for weewx but > not much else. > > I do have some experience supporting Python apps on macOS...which is part > of the reason I'm hesitant to use my Mac. I once had a Python app which > stopped working as a server following a mac OS upgrade and only > stopped/started via a scheduled script in my crontab. That's not ideal. > > Thanks in advance. > George > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
