Sunray <[email protected]> writes: > Many many thanks for all your useful comments! One of the suggestions which > I find very good is to first build up and test the system at home. The > hardware problem, however, is that my Vantage Vue weather station is at > the cabin, online to Weatherlink.com, and I'm not that keen to unplug it > and bring it home for the duration of the testing. > To get around that, I wonder what would be the simplest possible > replacement "weather station sensor" which I could connect to the weewx-RPi > testbed at home in order to send some test weather data to the RPi and > onwards. (In principle even a $2 temperature sensor directly connected to > the RPi, as in many RPi tutorials, would serve that purpose). Any > experience of that?
The most important thing to work out is reliable remote access to the system. You can install weewx and debug it remotely over ssh just fine. But if you can't login over ssh, you are stuck. So concentrate on the remote access part. > I'll have to think about your excellent VNC vs SSH vs VPN suggestions. I > was hoping not to have to do any special configurations of the LAN router, > either at home or at the cabin. But I may have to rethink. In terms of need > for protection, the value of the weather data is perhaps not that > important, but I certainly don't want to leave any holes from which > malicious entities may enter my laptop during the summertime when I spend > more time at the cabin and connect to the cabin's LAN. I don't know why you are trying to avoid configuring the router. fixed IP addreses assigned by DHCP is normal, and so is forwarding ssh to one of them. Given that the router is .1, I would assign .2 to the pi and .3 to the weatherlink. Configuring the router is far far easier than dealing with all the problems of reverse tunneling back in via some cloud mechanism from the device reaching out. When you do the static config, keep using dhcp on the pi, and set up tor like I suggested. That way when the router is replaced or reconfigured and changes LAN addresses, you will still be able to access the pi from outside. Overall, do not underestiamte the importance of being able to log in, and the ways in which trouble can happen. -- 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/rmiv9d992te.fsf%40s1.lexort.com.
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