For a while I've been running a BloomSky weather system, and managing to get the data into weewx via a driver that uses the BloomSky API, but it is a bit of a headache for a number of reasons. For one, if the home router's offline (for whatever reason) then weewx gets no data (and the BloomSky can't send data, either, so that's a lose-lose situation). For another, you can only get data in the form the BloomSky API deems suitable, and some of that's a bit limited.
Now, the BloomSky Storm, which provides rainfall and wind speed and direction, has decided to give up on wind speed. Intermittently it sends something, but mostly it doesn't, and what use is a weather sensor that doesn't sense the weather... I've been looking for a replacement system, and I've noticed a big difference in what's available. These days, it seems, just about everything "Connects to the Internet via a WiFi connection" and then allows data to "be uploaded to popular weather websites". That's all well and good if you want it, but none of them make any mention of how I might extract data from them if I happen to want to use my own weather recording system rather than wunderground, weathercloud, or wherever. What are the best options, these days, for getting data into weewx? Personally, I'd prefer something that could reliably be connected directly to the linux box running weewx so that data collection could continue even if the Internet was taking a holiday, but I'd settle for something that makes use of the local WiFi and Lan. I'd just rather not have to deal with getting my data back from somewhere out on the Net. -- 73, Rick, M0LEP -- 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/2e1a.619bde57.72bce%40hewett.org.
