I have a Davis VantageVUE station.
I want to easily post my readings on the various web services.
I have no need for a website, nor do I want the expense or hassle of one.
I love the flexibility of easily moving my gauges and graphs around my desktop monitor.
So, here is my ideal combination of programs...
* Davis WeatherLink for logging data a my fall back graphics
* Cumulus for easily posting weather data to various sites including Wunderground, PWS, and Weatherbug (whenever they get around to posting again.) I am not yet having success in posting to CWOP. And I love their wind indicators and 3D graphs.
* Virtual Weather Station (basic version) for easily manipulating gauges and graphs on my monitor.
* Virtual VP so I can run more than one program currently.
The software I have chosen not to use includes:
* The up-level versions of VWS. I have no need for the additional features. Cumulus and WeatherLink are capable of posting to the internet, I have no interest in creating a weather web page, and spending the extra money for Metars is extravagant on my budget.
* WeatherDisplay. I bought this 7 years ago and used it for awhile until discovering Cumulus and VWS a month ago. The combination of these two programs with their ease of use gives me added functionality without the steep learning curve of the super-feature rich capabilities of WeatherDisplay which seem to be oriented to weather observers that are much more "hard core" than I am.