Use weewx without weather station?

[Mikael Fredriksson]

Can weewx run without a weather station? I plan to use several raspberry pi's with temp sensors.
/Mikael

[Richard Horobin]

I believe so. I use it with a dongle and software-defined radio (SDR) to receive weather measurements from various devices. I have a weather station but the dongle receives radio frequency (RF) signals directly from the outside sensors. 

Are you sure you need all the power of several Raspberry Pis when each temp sensor only cost $AUD30 and the dongle $AUD20? One dongle and one weewx installation can receive many sensors’ data. One RPi can host one weewx and one dongle, with SDR input specifying several -R parameters naming the remote sensors. 

https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/sdr-rpi-recipe

My SDR.PY command shows two -R parameters so that it can interpret signals from two sensors .

/sdr.py --cmd="rtl_433 -R 40 -R 113 -M utc -F json"

[tarob...@gmail.com]

You don't need a weather station. I currently have 4 different temp/humidity sensors and a weather station all feeding into raspberry pi with SDR antenna. One raspberry pi can handle a lot of sensors at once.

[pligg...@gmail.com]

Ok great! 

I'll have a look at the sdr solution! 

Thanks for your answers

/Mikael