> 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
