mwall Thank you for this response. I was hoping for confirmation of such an approach. I had only just become aware of technology as MQTT in the course of researching my options.
Costs are not an issue once data retrieved from the remote site, and running another weewx instance locally for reports should be straight forward if I can import archive data successfully I remain impressed by the uptime reliability of the Pi, and weewx, in a relatively harsh operating environment. Regards On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 12:36:44 UTC+11, Rod M wrote: > > 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.
