Software Setup Download the software per excellent instructions in the user guide
wget -qO - http://weewx.com/keys.html | sudo apt-key add -
wget -qO - http://weewx.com/apt/weewx.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/weewx.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install weewx
Answer several questions during install:
Station Location: The Heights, Houston, Texas
Lat/Long: 29.794878, -95.402820
Altitude: 83, foot
Station Type: Vantage
usb port: /dev/vpro
Set up the usb port:
sudo touch /dev/vpro sudo gvim /etc/udev/rules.
Personal weather station conversion I have been running wview since June 23, 2012. It has been a reliable workhorse, but it doesn’t appear to be maintained any longer, and it does have a couple of issues. The new, improved open-source product seems to be weewx, so I’m migrating to that one.
This is the story of that conversion.
Preliminaries I know that my old database has some bad data in it, so the first thing I want to do is figure out where that bad data is, and fix it before I migrate the database.