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[William Blankenship]

Hi!

My daughter is interested in setting up a weather station. Thought it would be fun to turn this into a citizen science project for her.

Looks like WeeWX is exactly what I was looking for - but I'm a bit confused about the supported hardware. The hardware list doesn't show supported operating systems. Does everything on that list work with linux?

For example, WeeWX says it supports a Davis kit. I'm looking at the Davis weather station right now on a vendor's website and it's USB adapter states it only supports Windows and Mac. Does WeeWX have drivers for that on Linux?

[Marius Schamschula]

I have been using a pair of Davis Vantage Pro2 stations with WeeWx, one with Linux (Raspberry Pi) and the other with FreeBSD (Dell Server). No issues!

Marius

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[kilo...@gmail.com]

Weewx runs in Python and does not depend on an operating system. Any operating system that supports python can theoretically run weewx. (not sure how the attempt to port weewx to python on windows is coming along)

I have personally run weewx on any possible flavor of linux and FreeBSD.  I know many users on this forum run weewx on MacOS 

[William Blankenship]

Thanks for the fast response y'all! Appreciate it. Excited to dig in on the project!

Thanks for confirming the Davis Vantage Pro2 works on Linux and FreeBSD Marius! Those are the two "always on" server OSs in my house too, both are candidates for plugging the station into. Good to know they're supported!

[Marius Schamschula]

William,

The only thing that you need to know regarding WeeWx on FreeBSD, is that the rc script no longer works on boot. The bundled script uses a legacy format that is no longer fully supported. I haven’t had any luck writing my own. Any time I reboot the server, i.e. for OS updates, I manually run "service weewx start” after logging in.

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