Good evening all! I hope everyone had a safe and fantastic Thanksgiving!
I'm a very new user. So new, I haven't even downloaded WeeWx yet (planning to though, and use the simulator at first). However, my son and I are trying to put together a personal weather station, with the intent of eventually creating an amateur radio Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) that broadcasts our weather data. Both my son and I are licensed amateurs, my son is interested in meteorology, and he has already been through some SkyWarn training. I'm pretty comfortable in Linux, and done embedded and desktop programming in the past. But first, we need to specify the hardware. We are looking at a Davis Vantage Vue 6110, which is only the Vantage Vue integrated sensor suite (ISS), and no wireless console. Along with the 6110, we are looking at the WeatherLink Live 6100. With the 6110 and 6100, along with WeeWx, should that hardware be adequate to receive weather data from the ISS on a computer, then either display on that computer, or serve it up as a web page? I understand that there is a driver for the 6100, and its only shortcoming is that it cannot retrieve archived data from the 6100. We are okay with that deficiency. The other alternative would be to get the Vantage Vue 6250 (ISS and console), then add a WeatherLink 6510 USB. This seems to be a more stable config, but $80 more than the 6110 and 6510 USB. And we really don't need the console. The other alternatives are an AcuRite Atlas + Access, or Peet Bros Ultimeter 2100. Although the AcuRite is priced right, I've seen some things to question their quality. And the Peet Bros. is just way too expensive. Any thoughts? Any suggestions? Are we on the right track? Thank you in advance! -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2850708d-d9f4-4d20-900d-2ed1c0bb67a6n%40googlegroups.com.
