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After ten years or so of owning lower end weather stations; Lexibook, Oregon etc. I've just ordered an "enthusiast" system. A Davis Vantage Vue with data logger and Weatherlink software.
Just wondering if there's any owners on here that could give me any tips on mounting the sensor suite, uploading data to the web etc.
Fanks.
Weatherlink software is (was?) primitive and needs (needed?) you to have a PC running all the time if you want to upload to a weather service, e.g. [url= https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=INORTHEA6 ]Weather Underground[/url], [url= http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/view?siteID=882836001 ]Met Office[/url], etc. (my feeds are sporadic due to crap data coverage).
I bought a [url= http://www.davisnet.com/product/weatherlinkip-for-vantage-stations/ ]WeatherlinkIP[/url] after a while (also acts as a data logger, so you might have it already), this connects your console and logger directly to the Davis website through an ethernet cable connected to your router. In theory. For some reason my station wouldn't connect to their servers and their tech support showed no interest in resolving the problem - you may have better results from the civilised world.
I'm now running [url= http://www.weewx.com/ ]weewx[/url] on a Raspberry Pi - takes some command line/text editor bashing of config files if you want to do more complicated things but its not too difficult. There is an active [url= https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/weewx-user ]Google group for support[/url].
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