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(2/3) So... Get a similar station, or do I invest in something better?
I decided to upgrade to a Davis Vantage Vue station with USB data logger/interface. They seem to have a great reputation. It won't measure anything the old station didn't, but the outdoor unit is a single part, which is neater, and can charge up using it's solar panel.
It's also fully compatible with the WeeWX software that I had been using with my old station!
#weather #weatherstation #maplin #geek #tywydd #weewx
(3/3) Set up was a breeze. I quickly had the outdoor unit assembled and mounted in the garden.
It's just one unit so there are no messy cables.
The console's great and shows lots of info with the push of a few buttons.
Then it was time to re-familiarise myself with WeeWX. It's running well and reporting into CWOP, PWS, WOW, AWEKAS and Weather Underground. It's also got its own site https://wx.ja91.uk/
I'm really happy with it so far! #weather #weatherstation #maplin #geek #tywydd #weewx
@ja How do you find WeeWX?
@wessexweather it's great. I would say that though, as I've been using it for years.
It's different to some weather station software in that there's no GUI. It's meant for headless use to report to other services and generate web pages to look at on other devices.
I used to run it on an original raspberry pi years ago and that worked great for a surprisingly long time.
These days it's running as a VM on my proxmox cluster with seperate web server and database containers. It's very flexible
@ja I currently use Meteobridge to collect my data and feed it to my website template and other services. I’m considering a Raspberry Pi solution myself, or a VM running on my Synology nas.