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  • Location: Wickford, Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Storms.
  • Location: Wickford, Essex

Have you had a look at WeeWX? I think that will run on a Raspberry Pi and it does list a Fine Offset 3080 for supported hardware (if that's your model). I've used it for a while through a virtual machine and it's been very reliable.

 

http://www.weewx.com/

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  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Cool not cold, warm not hot. No strong Wind.
  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire

technically any linux version could/should run on a Rpi, but it does depend on the OS build your using.

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  • Location: Wallington, S London (now working from home)
  • Weather Preferences: hot sunny summers to ripen the veg and cold snowy winters of course
  • Location: Wallington, S London (now working from home)

Hi,

 

I'm just about to set up an RPi for the first time and can't decide between WeeWX and pywws, does anyone have any advice? I like the look of the DragonTail site, makes the installation of pywws seem less daunting than the Weewx sourceforge site, which made me feel a bit inadequate reading it last night! However, Weewx seems to get some good reviews.

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  • Location: Poole, Dorset 42m ASL
  • Location: Poole, Dorset 42m ASL

Hi,

 

I'm just about to set up an RPi for the first time and can't decide between WeeWX and pywws, does anyone have any advice? I like the look of the DragonTail site, makes the installation of pywws seem less daunting than the Weewx sourceforge site, which made me feel a bit inadequate reading it last night! However, Weewx seems to get some good reviews.

Just as an aside, have you really had 11000mm of rain this month, must be real soggy there?
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  • Location: Wallington, S London (now working from home)
  • Weather Preferences: hot sunny summers to ripen the veg and cold snowy winters of course
  • Location: Wallington, S London (now working from home)

Just as an aside, have you really had 11000mm of rain this month, must be real soggy there?

The perils of the Fine Offset outlier - and currently it's measuring humidity more akin to the Sahara!

 

Here's an update:

 

I decided to install the pywws software, and after a week or two of intense squinting at my tablet and a steep learning curve, I got it up and running to the stage where I could manually run the hourly command and upload to a website, WOW and Twitter. The next challenge was to get it running when I'm not logged in, and all the talk of scripts, cron and daemon confused me somewhat. Eventually the hours of R&D seem to bother my OH so I took a break;)

 

Last night I got a live logging command working, and reporting all night, but I'm not sure what happens if I log out of the SSH connection yet, or how I stop it running if I need to. Sometimes I just enter a command and see what happens without quite understanding what I'm doing.

 

I just got round to joining Wunderground, and now have spotted my RH readings are decreasing daily as I have most impressive dew points. I suspect that my station electronics have finally broken down, but will see if the removing and replacing the batteries helps before I have to admit defeat and buy a new one:(

 

Regarding the website, I've used a WeatherbyYou template for now, but I'd prefer something more detailed like the Cumulus interface. Has anyone else got any suggestions?

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