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.
>>
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