On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 12:40:02 PM UTC-7, George Fievet 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. > > You need very little hardware capacity. I run weewx on a Seagate Dockstar (first edition pogoplug circa 2009) with 128MB of ram using Debian as the os. Just plain works off of spinning disk.
Some thoughts: - my opinion is the best move is to install weewx under VirtualBox+vagrant and mess around with it in simulator mode. I have the configs for doing that up on github already. - I'd go with a Linux box rather than the Mac. Hardest part is getting the weather station to talk to the computer. Presumably you have the Davis logger on the Vue. FWIW, way back when the serial one was more stable, via serial->usb dongles. I've heard more recently the USB datalogger is better, but don't have any experience with that. - agree with Tom re: the pi. You could get a pi3, 16GB class-10 SD card, case, cables, power adaptor, etc. for under $75 probably. - re: which Linux - it doesn't much matter. Debian-based variants are a little more common (debian/ubuntu/raspbian) but folks have run them on Fedora, CentOS, and more exotic setups like a NAS box -- 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.
