Sure it is doable. But ensure that your IP address for your Weatherlink IP has a reservation by your router. Not sure which flavor of VNC you intend to use. The new RealVNC is very nice and offers remote capability without needing to open and forward firewall ports. But you should really test that before you leave that it works. While on site you could use your cellular if it has hotspot feature capability so that you can test connect from the Internet.
You could make sure remote access works by also setting up direct connection.....Give IP reservation to the Pi and then open and forward VNC ports 5900 and 5800. Then make sure you have a good Dynamic DNS service configured. Most good routers now offer this service for free. Alternatively to make things more secure you could instead of opening VNC ports you could set up OpenVPN on the router and then VPN in. TIP - when using a VPN you should change the default subnet to something other than the default 192.168.1.x and make it something unique like 192.162.15.x. So don't use 192.168.0.1 and don't use 192.168.1.1 as those are common and they will prevent your VPN connection from allowing you to reach destinations when it is likely that the remote location also uses 192.168.1.x or 192.168.0.x. What this means is that you need both networks to use a different subnet for things to work. One more thing....enable SSH on the Pi too so that you can use that instead of VNC as often all you need is a terminal prompt. On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 11:11:23 AM UTC-5 Sunray wrote: > Hello, > Sorry if this has been brought up already. I plan to install a Raspberry > Pi running Weewx at a remote cold cabin, where the time and conditions for > local configuration and troubleshooting are limited. So ideally I'd like to > bring a pre-configured RPi to the cabin and just plug it into the existing > LAN router where the weather station (Davis Vantage Vue with Weatherlink > IP) is already running. > > Then, ideally, using a remote desktop running e.g. VNC Viewer, do as much > as possible of the setup remotely from the warmth of my home. > > A question to you experts: is this feasible at all ? What are the minimum > setup steps that must be done locally at the cabin? I guess the key steps > are 1) to find out the local IP addresses of the weather station and the > RPi, and then 2) get the weather station to talk to the RPi and then 3) to > get the virtual desktop of the RPi to become accessible on the internet. > Then I could control Weewx from home. > > Anybody done this or can help otherwise? Many thanks in advance! > -- 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/2359d15c-e1b4-4817-9a14-32ddf57983c0n%40googlegroups.com.
