The SDR's are so cheap I decided to buy another one and use two of them. One as a drive and one as a service. That should hopefully work.
But thanks for the suggestion! Thanks, Glen Collins On Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 1:08:52 AM UTC-8 an oldman wrote: > switch between two frequencies witth rtl_433 > you can try something like this rtl_433 -f 433920000 -f 315M -H 1 > but you will most likely miss some of the signals > > On Friday, January 13, 2023 at 8:30:23 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > >> Vince, >> Thanks for the reply. >> >> I'm using VmWare as my virtualization engine using intel architecture. >> The Weewx is running under a virtualized Redhat 8 instance. >> >> 1) Thanks! I will look into adding a broker. So if I get this correct the >> Raspberry PI will send to the broker and the Redhat 8 server running Weewx >> will pick up the message from the broker? >> >> 2) I kind of figured that too. I see no way to switch between two >> frequencies with just one SDR running. I ordered another SDR so now I'll >> have two of them running. >> >> 3) I was thinking Purpleair too. That would probably be the easiest if >> it's supported by a plugin. >> >> Thanks a lot. This has helped me understand were I need to go with this. >> >> Regards, >> >> Glen >> >> On Friday, January 13, 2023 at 10:37:10 AM UTC-8 vince wrote: >> I guess I have to ask what kind of computer is running your virtual >> machine, and what virtualization software are you running. We kinda need >> to know your whole setup from a hardware perspective. >> >> For (1) FWIW - I use MQTT. I run a primary Davis VP2 station connected >> to a pi4. I run a secondary Ecowitt weewx station in a Docker container on >> a Ubuntu x86_64 host that publishes its data to MQTT using the MQTT >> extension. The Davis weewx subscribes to the MQTT data using the >> MQTTsubscribe extension. That means running a MQTT broker someplace in the >> middle of course, but I do that in Docker as well. It's simpler in >> practice than it sounds. >> >> For (2) I *think* you need separate instances and radios to listen for >> each frequency, but I might be mistaken there. For the AQ stuff, it >> depends on what you buy. If you go PurpleAir there's an extension for >> that. If you go with a Davis Airlink, you could probably modify the >> purpleair extension I'd think. The two are very similar. >> >> For (3) there are too many possibilities to answer there. Personally I >> really like MQTT as a central collector of stuff from all kinds of sources, >> and MQTTsubscribe on my primary weewx box to grab the readings I'm looking >> for, unless there's an explicit extension already that I can use directly >> (purpleair, for me). >> >> Adding a MQTT broker (use mosquitto) is very easy to do and lightweight. >> > -- 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/d5096f77-cdd6-4820-b749-35852f427828n%40googlegroups.com.
