Confused about 'support' for stations w/o USB connection

[James Deane]

Hi all, I hope this is not too basic for this group, but with my 2080a having failed I'm trying to figure out how to replicate the functions I had built up for the old setup.

I use a Raspberry Pi with weewx to upload data to Wunderground, CWOP, and PWSWeather. It seems most stations now have wifi connectivity, so I assume they are automatically sending to Wunderground -- but how does WeeWX get the data if there is no USB connection to the weather station console? In other words, how do I get it to CWOP and PWSWeather?

I see these wifi stations in the WeeWX compatibility list, so surely there must be a method, but I"m just not clear on what it might be.

Any help with my understanding would be greatly appreciated.

Jim

[James Deane]

I should have mentioned that I have not yet acquired a new station -- that's what I'm looking at now, and I want to buy one that will do what I was doing with my USB-connected 2080a.

[Rainer Lang]

if you are going for a Ecowitt (clone) station, - look up https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=40730.0 to see what's available from them these days and what they are able to do - then weewx will be able to read their data which they all send via WLAN ("WiFi") to the local network and/or the internet.

The Ecowitt Gateway API driver will do this for consoles with that gateway API (GW1100, GW2000, WN19x0) or the Interceptor driver for the consoles which don't have this API.
The consoles won't automatically post to weather services like Wunderground, Ecowitt etc., only when you choose to do so.
In other words, weewx will either request the weather data via the Ecowitt gateway API or the consoles will (after having been instructed to do so) post their data to the server weewx is running on and weewx picks them up. To get an idea about it (for Ecowitt (clone) consoles) see the thread in the link above chapter 8 data flow between sensors, consoles, application software and internet weather services.

It won't hurt to read that thread completely 😎

Ecowitt weather station today offer imo the best price/performance ratio and widest range of sensor support on the market for private weather stations in the 150-400 USD/EUR segment.

You are of course free to choose other manufacturers and more expensive solutions if your wallet allows 😉

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