That was what I was asking.   "Why would you possibly want to do this?"

The answer can't be money because any solution such as a smart switch or 
downgrading to a pi-zeroW would cost more than the annual savings in energy.

On Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 3:43:31 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:

>
> vince you may have not thought about the problem getting the the needed 
> energy there. If there is no grid-based power supply it may be hard to run 
> a raspberry pi continuously at that location. Anyway, knowing more about 
> the use case could lead to more ideas to solve the real problem.
> vince schrieb am Donnerstag, 20. Juni 2024 um 04:56:41 UTC+2:
>
>> Geez how much do you spend for power?  Why would you possibly want to do 
>> this ? 
>>
>> Even at $0.30 per kwh a pi4 would only cost $0.02 per day to just leave 
>> it on..,
>>
>>
>> https://www.calculator.net/electricity-calculator.html?appliance=&power=3&powerunit=W&capacity=100&usage=24&usageunit=hpd&price=0.30&x=Calculate
>>
>> On Wednesday, June 19, 2024 at 6:43:19 PM UTC-7 Tomás wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, I have a weatherlink and a raspi working with weewx doing a good 
>>> job for two years. The raspi is turned on for 5' for5-6 times daily, 
>>> downloads the data from the console and reports to wunderground mainly. I'd 
>>> like the routine to stop after finished, so I can turn off the raspi as 
>>> soon as posible.
>>>
>>> I have not found through weectl device or database an option to download 
>>> only missing records.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to do this? I could save some more miliamps this way.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>

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