I have been running very standard weeWX on Raspberry Pi -Vantage Pro, all fully solar powered, in Australian bush for 2 years, connected to internet via cell phone /wireless router. Using a data plan that gave me a true IP address, after initial difficulties, I was able to initiate web access to the Pi/weeWX web server consistently. (Thank you, Tom).
Unfortunately data usage plan was costly, so recently I reconfigured weeWX to ftp html files to my office server every 2 hours, about 180kB from memory, using a different phone data plan, but losing my ‘real’ inbound IP address- I can no longer SSH in. This too has been reliable, and a lot more economical. My office server is on fixed internet connection with static IP. I am experimenting adding proprietary sensors, occasional picture image, but also uploading the database weekly as backup. So far no issues with standard SD card. I am about to set up another remote, duplicate system, but wondering if I can do data transmission any more efficiently. Eg, I note in other forums and weewx docs, if I understand correctly, outputting data via skins, and then sending say text records, to another weewx running in my office, although my efforts installing weewx so far on my lan synology NAS box have not been successful. Does anyone think implementing this would effectively be much more data efficient compared to my current approach of ftp of html files? Would MQTT have a fit here? I can live with the 2 hourly update and current data usage. Regards. -- 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.
