If your platform supports it, another option would be to use rsync, as it can support compression.
-tk On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 2:09 AM, Rod M <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
