Please forgive my ignorance. I am very new at all this.
I have not yet purchased a weather station but will soon. My brother has (or will very soon) an extra raspberry pi3 board. It looks like it can be used to receive data from the station and upload it through the router to Weather Underground, CWOP, and other sites.
My main question is: Is there an advantage to it having WiFi and Bluetooth? Does that mean it will send the data to my laptop wirelessly? If so what software will turn my laptop into a console? (I don't mean a personal website, I'm not ready to do that, but software that would do the same job as a console?)
Is there other hardware, firmware, or software that would be necessary?
What other functions will the pi3 board do, concerning weather data?
How would I make it compatible with Fine Offset stations?