> On 22 Aug 2016, at 8:34, vince <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> 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.

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

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