Tom Hogland <[email protected]> writes:

> If the WL Live will integrate both devices then that's probably the way to 
> go - the Envoy pre-dates the Airlink by quite a few years and I can't see 
> any docs that say it will see the Airlink. (In fact none of the Envoy docs 
> mention the Airlink...) The Envoy + Weatherlink datalogger mostly 
> duplicates the WL Live functionality, so you don't need both. The Envoy 
> *may* be more reliable, depending on a LOT of variables, just because it's 
> a dedicated ISS receiver that's hard-wired to your weather PC, while the WL 
> Live depends on your weewx sniffing network packets for data.

This is the part I don't understand.   With envoy or console and
e.g. "Weatherlink serial":

  You can set it up without any proprietary apps, and without any cloud
  accounts, and without any working internet.

  The logger, at least in the console, keeps logging data while power to
  the computer is out, and weewx gets this data and puts it in the db
  when the computer is back.

So with weatherlink live:

  Is it just like a console, data logger, and then a wifi interface that
  gets an ip address and you can then connect to some port and it's just
  like serial?

  Do you need a proprietary app to set it up?

  Can you get data locally without WLL sending to the cloud?

  Can you set it up without letting it talk to the internet?

  Can you get data locally if the internet connection is down or
  firewalled, as long as the wifi works from the weewx machine.

  When you get data locally, is that straightforward and non-kludgy, vs
  some kind of "interceptor" driver?


I looked at the hardware guide

  https://www.weewx.com/docs/hardware.htm#vantage_notes

and the user's guide

  https://www.weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm#[Vantage]

and it looks like IP connection to weatherlink, but I didn't understand
the degree of non-consensual cloudiness (regardless of whether on is
concerned with reliability or privacy :-).

Greg






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