2 systems in parallel. Meteobridge and Raspberry PI

[Gert Andersen]

Hi

I'm moving away from Meteobridge to weeWX, installed on a Raspberry PI. Now the question. Is it possible to have 2 installations at the same time. The Meteobridge continues as now and sends data to my productionserver and the Raspberry should send data to my testserver. The Meteobridge receives data via USB from a Davis Vantage Pro2 station.

I would then set up a USB hub where Davis, Meteobridge and Raspberry are connected to. That way, I can hopefully run the 2 systems in parallel for a while.

Would this configuration be possible?

Thanks

Rgds

Gert

[Dan'l B]

Just assign the Meteobridge a fixed IP and use the ethernet setup in weewx.conf to point to that IP; comment out the # tcp_port = 22222 in weewx.conf. I've been running that setup for some time and had no issues with it that I can see. 

[gjr80]

Hi,

Short answer is no, that cannot be done. WeeWX will want exclusive access to your station.

Gary

[Dan'l B]

I should have specified: I have a Davis VP2 with the USB cable connected to the Meteobridge. 

[David F]

Can I take this a little slower, pls?  Doing ~ what Gert asked about, but I HAVE Weewx runnning on Rasp Pi taking data from Davis Vantage Pro console via datalogger with USB cable.  It works great.  I'd like to ADD a meteobridge (to post to Ambient Weather).  In terms of hardware, are you suggesting ISS->Console->Datalogger->Meteobridge->switch/router <-Raspberry Pi  ???    In other words, meteobridge talks to Weewx in the same manner as a WeatherlinkIP datalogger?  Set meteobridge IP to something fixed, e.g. 192.168.0.XXX.  Then in weewx.conf configure as excerpt below:

# If the connection type is ethernet, an IP Address/hostname is required:

    host = 192.168.0.XXX

    ######################################################
    # The rest of this section rarely needs any attention.
    # You can safely leave it "as is."
    ######################################################

    # Serial baud rate (usually 19200)
    baudrate = 19200

    # TCP port (when using the WeatherLinkIP)
    #tcp_port = 22222

[Bill Arthur]

I run WeeWx in parallel with Meteobridge.  My setup is different than yours and I don't have the issues you have.

I have three stations, two are remote require a considerable drive. I am using the GW-1000 which sends data to both devices. I can log in remotely to both the RasPi (using VNC) and Meteobridge so that I can remotely reconfigure if I see a problem.

It's working very well for me. It saves a lot of driving.
I hope you are able to get the kinks out.

[galfert]

It is a different issue for Davis stations. Their loggers can only be connected to one device and one software. The exception is if they have the Davis WeatherLink Live logger as that has an API that allows for multiple connections from different devices or software.