USB over Ethernet & Belfryboy Clone USB logger

[zkab]

I have ordered Belfryboy Clone USB logger to use with Vantage Vue Console and I will run weewx in a Debian server.

Problem is that the Deb server is in another building than the Vue Console but I have a LAN available in the premises.

Can I use a USB over Ethernet adapter to connect the logger to my Deb server ?

[Thomas Keffer]

I seem to recall several people doing just that, albeit using a conventional Davis logger. Search the archives.

My hunch is that the results will not be super reliable, but it can probably be made to work.

-tk

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[zkab]

OK - thanks.

But my main concern is if it will work with Belfryboy Clone USB logger

Den måndag 22 augusti 2016 kl. 14:49:10 UTC+2 skrev Tom Keffer:

I seem to recall several people doing just that, albeit using a conventional Davis logger. Search the archives.

My hunch is that the results will not be super reliable, but it can probably be made to work.

-tk

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 5:38 AM, zkab <raivo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have ordered Belfryboy Clone USB logger to use with Vantage Vue Console and I will run weewx in a Debian server.

Problem is that the Deb server is in another building than the Vue Console but I have a LAN available in the premises.

Can I use a USB over Ethernet adapter to connect the logger to my Deb server ?

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[Thomas Keffer]

​Why not ask Belfryboy?

-tk​

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[zkab]

OK 

[Les Niles]

At the risk of being one of "those guys" who replies to a simple question with a redesign of the system:

Why not run weewx on a tiny computer -- a raspberry Pi or similar-- that's directly connected to the USB cable and upload the web pages (and sync/archive the data if you want) to the Debian server over the LAN? The little computer shouldn't cost much more or be much bigger than the USB-over-Ethernet adapter, and there'll probably be a lot less fiddling to get it working reliably. 

  -Les

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[vince]

On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 8:24:13 AM UTC-7, ln77 wrote:

At the risk of being one of "those guys" who replies to a simple question with a redesign of the system:

Why not run weewx on a tiny computer -- a raspberry Pi or similar-- that's directly connected to the USB cable and upload the web pages (and sync/archive the data if you want) to the Debian server over the LAN? The little computer shouldn't cost much more or be much bigger than the USB-over-Ethernet adapter, and there'll probably be a lot less fiddling to get it working reliably. 

My answer here to that would be "it's not always money as the limiting factor".   Sometimes you don't want more computers period.  Sometimes you have box-A onsite in one place, but you can't put anything else close to it physically. Sometimes finding a way to do unusual stuff is part of the adventure itself.

[zkab]

In my case a Raspi sitting close to the Vue Console is not a good solution ... I run a bunch of services in the Deb server and I want to include weewx also ... but connecting Vue Console via USB is not an option.

[Guilherme DP]

Hello,

I´m using orange pi pc (http://www.orangepi.org/orangepipc/).

It is running weewx for 3 months without any kind of problem. It is a US$ 15 "complete" computer.

The orange pi pc is connected to a ws-1080 (usb port)  and to the internet using wifi/lan. I have also tested with vantage vue and davis usb data logger without restrictions.

Best regards,

Guilherme.

[Les Niles]

Sure, there are plenty of generic reasons why it might not be a good solution. I was just wondering about zkab’s reasons in particular — which he has answered — given that USB-over-ethernet adapters are really not that different in terms of hardware than one of these credit-card computers.  

  -Les