On Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 5:41:32 AM UTC-7, Thomas Keffer wrote: > > Yes, that's the problem. > You cannot expect high-quality data without investing in the hardware. You > bought an expensive Davis station, why not spend the other $50 to protect > the data? > > > Or alternately sell all your raspberry pi gear and pick up a good used computer that 'has' a RTC in it (even a 4 year old mini pc would work) so you get correct time through your periodic power outages.
In short, buy a real computer. The pi are great (I have 'many') but you are limited in what they can do without adding things to them. You have to remove those limitations by either adding a realtime clock, or a ups (or both), or buying a more capable computer if you want enterprise-level data availability. The other thing to think about is 'does your computer power up when power is restored'. That's not always goodness. I've fried a lot of motherboards over the years in places where the power is very bouncy up and down as power is restored to that location. UPS is almost certainly the short term answer, plus a RTC if you want to stick with a pi. -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2674140d-f230-4451-a8b2-8961f3819a14%40googlegroups.com.
