On Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 11:15:52 AM UTC-4, Scott Muckleroy wrote:
>
>
> Hello-  I have a Vantage Vue and will be receiving a WeatherLinkUSB 
> tomorrow and I am trying to figure out what would be the best setup to 
> accomplish the following:
>
> 1. real-time'ish WX data to web site and android cell phones using an app 
> with high WAF.
>

what is WAF?  (women in the air force?  amazon web services web application 
firewall?)

 

> 2. MQTT WX data feed to MQTT broker.
>

use the weewx-mqtt extension:

https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/mqtt

 

> 3. Over 3 year of historical data.
>

depending on the format, you might be able to use the wee_import utility to 
put the data into a weewx database.  if wee_import cannot recognize it, 
then you might be able to import it directly, or use some simple 
PERL/python/shell to do it.

 

> 4.  Update WeatherLink web site using the free WeatherLink service, not 
> subscribing to Pro, etc. (plug-ins)
>

there is not yet any weewx extension to upload to weatherlink (or any other 
proprietary, vendor-specific web service)

 

> 5.  Update public weather sites like wunderground, etc.
>

use the wu uploader, which is built-in to weewx

 

> 6. HomeSeer home automation integration. (MQTT I think..)
>

configure homeseer to subscribe to the topics published by the weewx-mqtt 
uploader

 

> From everything I have read it looks like WeeWx can do all of this but 
> like everything it looks like there are several ways to skin this cat.
>

please see these guides on the weewx wiki:

1) how to get data into weewx:

https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/intake-strategies

2) what to do with the data once you have it:

https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/dashboards

no cats were skinned or otherwise harmed in the creation or application of 
these guides.

 

> I have two VM's (Windows 10 and Linux Mint 19.1) running on a QNAP NAS 
> that I can use for this setup, but obviously I can only attache the 
> WeatherLinkUSB to one of the VM's.  Local MQTT server/broker running in 
> docker container.
>
> From what I have read in the documentation and forums, it looks like I 
> could either connect the WLUSB to the Window VM, install/configure 
> WeatherLink and then have WeeWX pull Wx data from WeatherLink OR connect 
> the WLUSB to the WeeWx server and just use it as the repository for 
> everything?
>
> Do most people with Davis Instruments station that have WeeWx also use the 
> Davis WeatherLink site to upload data? 
>

if you are really keen to keep your data at davis' weatherlink, then you 
*could* let your davis hardware upload directly to davis' site, then use 
the wlink driver to feed weewx with the data from weatherlink.  but that is 
prone to failures, especially if you have a wobbly network.

most people find it most reliable to have weewx talk as directly to the 
hardware as possible, save the data to local database, then optionally 
upload to one or more services, possibly running utilities like wunderfixer 
from time to time to fill in gaps caused by network outages or flaky web 
services.

m 

-- 
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.

Reply via email to