Re: [weewx-development] Data continuity through power outage

2022-09-25 Thread Vince Skahan
I guess I see a lot of issues starting with expecting wifi working, meaning yet more ups need. Theoretically a ups backed m1 macbook air might do the job given its long battery life, but at that point just buy a vantage vue and data logger for similar price and rely on the vue console and logge

Re: [weewx-development] Data continuity through power outage

2022-09-25 Thread Greg Troxel
"morr...@gmail.com" writes: > Gah, on further thought, this concept seems to be fighting against the > design of weewx. Might be better to put everything, including weewx, on a > machine that is backed up by battery. I don't really see it as fighting the design. Yes it makes sense to have a

Re: [weewx-development] Data continuity through power outage

2022-09-25 Thread Tom Keffer
Absolutely. I use a 550 VA UPS, which lasts for about 4 hours. Over the 20 years I've been posting to the internet, I've hit that limit maybe 3 or 4 times. In those 3 or 4 cases, the archive ability of the VantagePro worked flawlessly. On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 11:51 AM morr...@gmail.com wrote: >

Re: [weewx-development] Data continuity through power outage

2022-09-25 Thread morr...@gmail.com
On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:31:33 p.m. UTC-3 Tom Keffer wrote: > That's correct. > > Before weewx starts asking for LOOP packets it figures out what the start > and end of the archive interval will be. It uses this information to figure > out when to stop asking for LOOP packets and, in