Thanks.  

The smartHub died after a recent  blackout.  My guess is that it didn't 
like the power coming back on(it's plugged into a surge protector, but 
those are not 100% fullproof)  SDR will be the next purchase, probably in 
the autumn.

On Monday, 20 May 2019 08:27:30 UTC-4, mwall wrote:
>
> On Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 8:17:17 PM UTC-4, Sylvain Martel wrote:
>>
>> No matter, I found the answer.  Acurite data is encrypted, so it can't be 
>> read, and only the WU data is read.  And since Acurite only allow one 
>> device to send data to WU...
>>
>
> assuming the smarthub hardware is ok, you can continue to use it even 
> though the acurite support/servers are gone.  just point it at the computer 
> running weewx and the weewx-interceptor driver:
>
> https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/acuritebridge
>
> as you noted, the software-defined radio (SDR) with weewx-sdr driver might 
> be a better approach.  the SDR will detect signals not only from acurite, 
> but also many other sensors.  so you can mix and match any number of 
> sensors from any vendor, and combine them using the sensor_map into the 
> database fields that you want.
>
> https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/sdr-rpi-recipe
>
> a 20$US USB SDR dongle is cheaper than an acurite access, and much more 
> versatile.
>
> m
>

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