Thanks matthew - as ever some very helpful some food for thought in your 
response.  
Since posting I've realised I have a bigger problem to resolve though - if 
the console goes outdoors I lose indoor temperature so now I have to work 
out how to get an indoor temperature into the system!!  At the moment this 
is blocking progress and further thoughts on the concept!!!


On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 16:29:35 UTC+2, mwall wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 11:14:25 AM UTC-5, Andrew Milner wrote:
>>
>> I have been considering having an old RPi outdoors connected to my WH2080 
>> for the sole purpose of extracting the data from the station and would like 
>> to get the loop data so read into another instance of weewx via Wi-Fi 
>> running on another RPi indoors - also on the same local network.  Thye 
>> database and report generation would all take place on the second machine - 
>> the sole purpose for the first one is to capture the data.  Anyone got any 
>> suggestions as to how to achieve this??
>>
>
> piA is rpi connected to wh2080
> piB is rpi indoors
>
> option 1: mqtt.  run weewx with fousb driver and mqtt uploader on piA, 
> disable all reports except for a simple status report written to tmpfs, and 
> logs to tmpfs.  on piB, run an mqtt broker and weewx with an mqtt driver.  
> piA sends each loop packet as json mqtt payload.  weewx on piB is mqtt 
> consumer and receives each loop packet via the mqtt broker.
>
> option 2: database replication using rsync.  both piA and piB use sqlite 
> database.  run some process outside of weewx that does rsync of the piA 
> database to piB between archive records.  only run wee_reports on piB.
>
> option 3: remote database.  make weewx on piA save to mysql database on 
> piB.  only run wee_reports on piB.
>
> option 4: self-hosted 'cloud'.  piA runs a standard weewx installation, 
> but with reports and logs to tmpfs.  piA also runs rsync report that syncs 
> the tmpfs reports (and logs?) to piB.  piB does not run weewx - just a web 
> server to display whatever reports piA has transferred to it.
>
> oops! now i see that you want loop data, and options 2,3,4 only do archive 
> records.
>
> so many options, so little time!
>
> m 
>

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