Usb stations are now the old time?

[Jacques Desroches]

Hi,

Since 2010 I've played with Personal Weather Stations, to create some weather templates on www.weatherbyyou.com

I've used FineOffset (National Geographic) usb station for 12 years and only have find one AcuRite usb station to replace my old station. But today, usb station era seems ended, so I have 2 questions:

1- Today stations seems to be wi-fi, without connection to Pc. Then how this work? Station has to publish to a commercial site (WUnderground or others) and software take the data from WU?

2- As Davis seem to be again the holy grail (but $$$$), which brand offer a cheaper alternative (I've looket to ecowitt with a GW3000)

So, please share your opinion and experience to help an old timer! ;)

Best regards,

Jacques

[michael.k...@gmx.at]

Yes, USB stations seem to be a thing of the past.

So how do Wi-Fi/LAN stations work? Most of them have one thing in common: they connect to their manufacturers' cloud services and upload data. In addition, they often also offer local access to the devices. For instance, Weatherflow stations send UDP packets, Ecowitt stations offer access via local APIs and can be set up to send data to any remote IP address you configure. You can also set them up to publish data via MQTT.

For WeeWX, there are different drivers for accessing the data, depending on the hardware: specific drivers (WeatherflowUDP, ecowitt gateway driver, etc.) or generic drivers (MQTTSubscribe, Interceptor).

[Ian]

Hi Jacques,

I remember you from way back, your (Blue Version2) was the first weather website application that I used. I only stopped using when I switched from Cumulus to WeeWX. Back in those days I did not have the kowledge to adapt it to use data from WeeWX, but over the years, I have gained that knowledge particularly from this enthusiastic and helpful community who are very ready to share. As Michael has said, there are many ways in which WeeWX can communicate with the mentioned devices. I use Ecowitt devices in conjunction with the Ecowitt Gateway GW3000, both with a dedicated WeeWX driver and MQTT. Any help in that direction I am happy to provide.

I no longer have the code for your Blue ver 2, but I would like to set it up to use with WeeWX. Do you still have a copy that you could share with me?

Best regards,
Ian

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