Re: [weewx-user] Upload seasons report to FTP only

2020-08-22 Thread Michael Form
Philipp: Why don't you just boot and use a SSD for the Pi storage. SSDs are much more reliable, especially for all of the writes, and longer lasting than an SD card. You can get a relatively inexpensive 250 or 500 GB SSD which should give you plenty of storage.  There are many descriptions on

Re: [weewx-user] Upload seasons report to FTP only

2020-08-22 Thread Graham Eddy
i also do not like to generate weewx reports to RPi’s SD card so i mount weewx/public_html on tmpfs - reads and writes to RAM only. being tmpfs (RAM) the content is lost on reboot, but it is all generated again anyway, just adds some milliseconds to the first reports after a reboot phillip

Re: [weewx-user] Upload seasons report to FTP only

2020-08-22 Thread Garry A Lockyer
Don’t think so! WeeWx needs a place (a folder) to create its web pages. I suppose that folder could be on a network / remote drive but it is usually on the local system. It’s likely that a network drive will be slower than a local folder. I too was concerned about burning out SD cards so I

Re: [weewx-user] Upload seasons report to FTP only

2020-08-22 Thread p q
I don't have an answer for you, but I've been running Weewx on raspi for 4 years without a problem with an SD card. I know there are others who have been running much longer. On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 8:16 AM Philipp wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've successfully set up weewx on my Raspberry Pi and

[weewx-user] Upload seasons report to FTP only

2020-08-22 Thread Philipp
Hi everyone, I've successfully set up weewx on my Raspberry Pi and the reports generated by I are exactly what I have been looking for. I am however a bit afraid that the SD card in my Pi won't last very long as weewx is generating and writing a new weather report every 5 minutes. This is why