Wow! 15 times the price? Vantage stations are good, but not that good! -tk
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 9:01 AM Miloslav Pawlica <[email protected]> wrote: > I also agree with you, I was originally meaning "cheap" stations. Vantage > Pro price is for example 15 times higher then price of FineOffset WH1080. > It would be nice to have better station, but I do not want to invest so > much, regardless how great this station is. > > My second station is Ventus 831. This stations do not suffer from hw > issues like FineOffset WH1080, but it time to time lose sensor connection > and then connection "refresh" must be done, which is sometimes for me > impossible to do, because station is located in remote location. > > Nothing is perfect :o) > > Still after I have experienced permanent memory failure on one station, I > will switch both my stations to software generation and limit > pooling/archive intervals. Hopefully this will fix it. It is pretty funny, > because originally I was only fighting lifespan problem of SDcards on RPI, > I was stupid to not think about same issue on weather station :-D > > Dne pátek 3. ledna 2020 16:13:50 UTC+1 Thomas Keffer napsal(a): >> >> In my experience, usb-connected devices are *more* reliable because they >> are not dependent on network connections. My Vantage Pro has 14+ years of >> data without a single record missing. That's very hard to do with >> networked-based solutions. >> >> Vendors are moving to cloud-based solutions not to increase reliability, >> but because most users want "plug and play," it allows vendors to charge a >> subscription forever, and they end up owning the data. >> >> -tk >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 7:08 AM Miloslav Pawlica <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Actually it is not. I did that, restarted weewx and nothing has change. >>> I think that I'm starting to understand that. >>> >>> Pooling interval is only used for plugins like RapidFire for WU. So the >>> best option to lower stress put on station is to leave archive_interval as >>> default 30 minutes, extended pooling interval from 60s to more and then use >>> some plugin to export live-pooled data. If we do not use RapidFire or >>> similar plugin, pooling interval has not really purpose, so you can set it >>> to longer period to avoid unnecessary usb lockups and weather stations >>> restarts. I believe that this will significantly extend station lifespan. >>> >>> Actually it is funny, how much problems we can get with USB connected >>> weather stations. This explains why are stations Vendors slowly leaving >>> this solution and moving to cloud enabled devices. I do not see real >>> benefit of it for power users, except less hardware problems and conflicts. >>> >>> >>> Dne pátek 3. ledna 2020 14:49:14 UTC+1 Thomas Keffer napsal(a): >>>> >>>> The key is to change option record_generation from 'hardware' to >>>> 'software': >>>> >>>> [StdArchive] >>>> >>>> record_generation = software >>>> >>>> -tk >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 5:03 AM Miloslav Pawlica <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, I hope that somebody can explain it to me. >>>>> >>>>> I use weewx for 3 years now. My first weather stations WH1080 just >>>>> died. Its memory is completely dead, do not stores any data and Weewx is >>>>> not able communicate with station over usb. So I got new station. It is >>>>> again WH1080. >>>>> >>>>> With same configuration as before, like 5 minutes archive_interval the >>>>> station will again die in 3 years. I would like to avoid that. Therefore I >>>>> have deiced to use archive_interval 30 minutes, to save memory from too >>>>> many writes.Still I would like to update date by weewx more often then >>>>> every 30 minutes. >>>>> >>>>> If I understand correctly Weewx is able to read just live data from >>>>> Weather station, so there should be no real reason to use internal memory >>>>> of device. So when software data generation is configured, pooling is set >>>>> to 10 minutes weewx should simply created its outputs every 10 minutes >>>>> from >>>>> its own software database located on server and then push data to ftp. >>>>> Still, it does not work like this. Whatever I configure, weewx ignores it >>>>> and use station hardware archive_interval and output is generated only >>>>> every 30 minutes. >>>>> >>>>> My question is, why does weewx has option like archive_interval if it >>>>> is ignored or what is the reason for pooling from station every 60 >>>>> seconds, >>>>> when archive interval is much longer? >>>>> >>>>> I was reading all posts here regarding weewx and Fineoffset stations. >>>>> Still I do not see a way how to make it work better. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks :o) >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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]. >>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/33ff8dc2-5cf9-49d2-a948-807ebb48c714%40googlegroups.com >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/33ff8dc2-5cf9-49d2-a948-807ebb48c714%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> -- >>> 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]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/c2a08a26-167e-4c84-a8cd-691a3ceb78d1%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/c2a08a26-167e-4c84-a8cd-691a3ceb78d1%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/62fac585-7bb6-413f-b35b-beb8a76b6f55%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/62fac585-7bb6-413f-b35b-beb8a76b6f55%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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