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VTHokie74

I noticed the gold star badge on my station last weekend. I wondered what is going on with that. There is another station about a mile from me that was off WU for a month or so. It just came back on line on September 17th and hasn't earned a gold star yet. It must take more than five days to earn on...

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rstetson wrote:figured it out -I turned off the "rapidfire" setup in WX Underground.

rsl

Yeah. That will do it.

VTHokie74

One thing I figured out after a recent power failure is that the default setting on the Davis VP2 logger is 30 minutes. I had never bothered to change it in Weather Link. Now it is set to five minutes to match Cumulus. I know, it's covered in the installation post. I just forgot to go back and set it.

VTHokie74

I recently wanted to change my Davis VP2 logging interval to five minutes from the default value of 30. I had noticed during a power failure that my Davis was only logging every30 minutes. I found this could not be changed from the console. I had blown away Weatherlink on the PC where I used to run ...

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The only problem I saw was the fact that Ubuntu runs like a pig on the Pi. I think there's a reason why they use Jessie..and I prefer Jessie Lite actually. When I have some free time (and that looks like a month down the road) I am going to try switching my RP3 to Jessie Lite. I don't need the desk...

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Google Drive, Dropbox and One Drive all synch local copies to their servers in the background. That work's fine on a PC where you typically have a large drive these days. I use Google Drive because they give you 15 GB free. That wouldn't work well on the RP since a local copy would soon fill up an S...

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This is jank's script.

https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.p ... 30#p107130

I think it could be modified to use Google Drive as the target.

VTHokie74

I think you have to stop CumulusMX before editing cumulus.ini. The web interface will work with it running but many changes require a stop and restart. I found this is true for uploading any extra files.

VTHokie74

SDR stands for software defined radio. The short description is that a variable RF oscillator is used to mix RF signals down to a frequencies that a PC sound card can handle. Then the tuning, filtering, detection, etc. can be handled digitally in the PC. If you go to websdr.org you can tune and list...

VTHokie74

That is an interesting concept. Do you know what kind of encoding FO uses for the transmitted data? I wonder if there would be a market for a "headless" weather station consisting of a sensor array and a USB dongle? I hardly need a console for my Davis. If I want to see the values I can ju...

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Just to be clear my question was concerning access over the Internet and not inside the same local network. I use FireSSH for that and it works fine. There other other good solutions like PuTTY also. To answer Steve's earlier question I believe Dataplicity on supports a terminal session on the RP. I...

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I was curious what software folks are using for accessing their Raspberry Pi over the Internet. The two I see mentioned are Weaved and Dataplicity. I tried Dataplicity for no particular reason and I wasn't crazy about it. It didn't like it when I tried to copy and paste commands into the terminal wi...

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I have never heard of splitting a USB device connection between two computers, which is what you are wanting to do. I think once you get your FO station working on the RP3 there would be no reason to go back. I moved my Davis station from a similar old Dell laptop running Windows XP to a RP3 almost ...

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Does it come with meat balls?

Actually it is a nifty idea.

VTHokie74

Grrrrr. I may just spring for the Davis Vantage Vue Pro 2 unit. Get it over with. I have a $250 gift card to Amazon already so that will take the sting out of it (just a little). Thanks Scott I bought the Davis VP2 wireless in late 2014 to replace an Ambient WS1090. I found the best price was from ...

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