Hello everyone! I'm very new to Weewx and so far love the software. I do have some questions though that I cannot seem to find the answers to or I just don't understand the terminology being used. So here goes....
So I just recently purchased an Acurite Atlas 7 in 1 weather station and I liked the idea of having the console/display having wifi think it would be simple to forward everything to Weewx. Boy was I wrong! I found out quickly how "not open" Acurite is on their products so I started looking how to gather the send the weather data in different ways. The one technology I selected was using an SDR to pick up the data from the station and put it into Weewx via RF. So I put together my Raspberry Pi, installed Weewx and it's working as I expected. But I don't want to use the PI as my Weewx instance as I have a virtual system already running Weewx where I want to put everything and run the reporting because it has the resources to do so. So my 1st question is: How do I setup my Raspberry PI to forward it's weather data to the instance I want to run the reports on. All the Raspberry PI will be used for is the SDR RF and forward on. Can this be done with a plugin somehow? I've seen posts about MQTT but I don't know anything about it and I don't know if it's the proper method to get the data into the instance I want the reports to run on. Can someone help answer this question? Raspberry PI (with Multiple SDR's running Weewx) ---> Virtual Machine (Running Weewx with reporting) --> Posting to Weather Undergroud (if I want to) My 2nd question is: Using my Raspberry PI with SDR's to gather the data from my weather station, I found it does not have a barometer as that's derived on console/display. So I want to gather that data too so I have everything. My question is (and I think I know the answer), can the SDR plugin scan multiple frequencies? The reason I ask it the weather station transmit on 433Mhz and the barometer transmits on 915Mhz. Can I have the one driver looks at both frequencies at one time? Or must I have multiple SDR's to accomplish this. I'm also looking to include a AQ monitor in the future. Don't know what they transmit on but I'm sure it's one of those. My 3rd question is: I have read when you have multiple data sources such as I have, the best way to get the data in is to setup a service in Weewx and have the service called. While I see this in the Wiki I'm unclear how I would apply this to the rtl_* executable to read in the RF from the SDR. Can someone explain or point me into the right direction? Maybe provide an example config? Thanks so much. Looking forward to getting into the fun. Thanks Glen -- 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/7ed11468-0d63-4d68-bd54-78c5d86d2451n%40googlegroups.com.
