I've been a WView weather display program user since about 2010, and while a bit dated looking UI-wise, found it sufficient for my needs. Its installed on an AMD MB-based computer, with 240GB SSD, and running under Debian Linux. Its connected to my Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station via Davis' USB data logger cable/dongle. I've been slow to upgrade the OS (currently running Debian Jessie, but left WView running Wheezy code).
But its become clear that WView's days are over (or nearly so) - it hasn't been updated for a long time and support for it appears non-existant. I'm not complaining - for a freebie piece of software, it was great, its run largely unattended, and its author deserves a lot of credit - Thanks, man ! Anyway, I've been looking into WeeWX as a replacement if for no other reason than this huge and active user group. Reviewing the configuration process and code, it looks a LOT like WView in many ways, meaning I might even be able to import my archived 2+ years of WView data into WeeWX - not an absolute necessity but keeping that data for reference would be nice, and on the surface it at least looks feasible. My questions are these: Can I install WeeWX onto the same Debian box, still running Jessie, without disturbing WView? Will the installation overwrite any WView-critical files or dependencies? I realize I'll have to shut down WView so I can start up WeeWX (since they both want access to the same data source, the Davis USB cable port) ... but is there any reason to worry about cross-interference up to that point? I'd prefer not to irreparably corrupt the WView data if I can avoid it. I can always just leave the WView installation alone and do a totally from-scratch install of WeeWX on a RPi3 / SSD combo, transfer old data across (assuming its importable), get everything ready on the Pi before shutting down WView and moving the Davis cable from one box to the other - and there are lots of reasons to consider that solution better anyway, from many angles ... and I may do this anyway since WeeWX doesn't appear to need the power or resources of the WView box. Re-using the WView box isn't a requirement for me. But is it safely possible? As an aside, was the WView programmer a key part of launching WeeWX, or vice versa? The similarities in code and UI are pretty numerous. Thanks for any input. Rod in Edm -- 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.
